[gimp-web/testing] First draft for GIMP 2.10.10 release news.

[Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>]

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Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Mon Mar 18 16:08:01 2019 +0100

    First draft for GIMP 2.10.10 release news.

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+Title: GIMP 2.10.10 Released
+Date: 2019-03-20
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber
+Slug: gimp-2-10-10-released
+Summary: GIMP 2.10.10 released: good news everyone!
+
+No updates for a few months, but the reward is there: a lot of nice new
+features in this release!
+
+# Notable improvements
+## Improved tools
+### Bucket Fill tool
+
+The Bucket Fill tool got a bit of revamping making it much easier to
+use, and it also got a new "Fill by line art detection" mode (a.k.a.
+"Smart Colorization")!
+
+#### Quick Color picking
+
+Similarly to painting tools, it is now possible to pick surrounding
+colors on canvas with the Ctrl modifier, without having to switch to
+Color Picker tool.
+
+#### Click and drag to fill
+
+In "Fill similar colors" and "Fill by line art detection" modes, you can
+now keep the mouse button down to continue filling more areas.
+
+#### Fill by line art detection
+
+Finally the highlight change on the Bucket Fill tool is a new algorithm
+for painters, allowing to fill areas surrounded by "line arts", while
+trying to leave no unfilled pixels near the lines, and closing potential
+zones.
+
+This feature, originated from the [G'MIC](https://gmic.eu/) plug-in as a
+research paper, was contributed by Jehan as a work of the
+[IMAGE](https://www.greyc.fr/?page_id=443&lang=en) team of the
+[GREYC](https://www.greyc.fr/?page_id=1342&lang=en)
+laboratory (French Research Lab, affiliated to the
+[CNRS](http://www.cnrs.fr/), the [University
+of Caen](http://www.unicaen.fr/), and the engineering school
+[ENSICAEN](https://www.ensicaen.fr/)), with important interface input
+from Aryeom from [ZeMarmot](https://film.zemarmot.net/) project.
+
+See also this [technical blog
+post](https://girinstud.io/news/2019/02/smart-colorization-in-gimp/).
+
+### Transformation tools
+
+Ell improved various shortcomings on several transformation tools:
+
+* The Scale tool now scale around the center, even when using numeric
+input.
+* The Unified Transform tool defaults to preserving aspect ratio
+when scaling up or down.
+* New "Constrain handles" and "Around center" options to the
+perspective-transform tool's GUI, which are similar to the
+corresponding options of the unified-transform tool.
+
+### Healing tool
+
+Michael Natterer improved the Healing tool, allowing "Sample merged" to
+also work for the target pixels, allowing to draw in empty layers.
+
+## Better brushes
+### 32-bit parametric brushes
+
+Michael Natterer and Ell worked a lot on better brush support in GIMP.
+A big improvement for painters is to make parametric brushes finally
+32-bit float, following the high-bit depth move for color processing.
+The main advantage will be to avoid posterization on large brushes,
+especially with darker colors.
+
+It is to be noted that raster brushes are still 8-bit. Promoting them to
+32-bit float is also a planned future work.
+Moreover plug-ins only have access to 8-bit versions of high-precision
+brushes and patterns. New API will be required to handle high-precision
+data.
+
+### Easy brush and pattern creation from clipboard
+
+It was already possible to create new brushes and patterns on-the-fly
+from the clipboard (i.e. image copied, typically with a `Ctrl-c`
+shortcut). This was extremely practical, yet only allowed temporary
+brushes and patterns.
+
+These temporary brushes and patterns can now be duplicated as any brush,
+therefore allowing to promote them to stored data for further reuse.
+Though simple looking, this change is the result of an important code
+migration into the core of GIMP (instead of being plug-in code),
+performed by Michael Natterer, which may have further happy consequences
+in a near future!
+
+### Open as Image
+
+The "Brushes" dockable now provides an "Open brush as image" button to
+quickly open a brush file, hence allowing easier brush edits.
+
+## On-canvas layer selection
+
+Anyone working with a lot of layers has experienced sometimes the
+frustration of not finding a layer in the list, even though you see its
+pixels in front of your eyes.
+
+Jehan implemented a new generic canvas modifier `Alt + middle click`
+allowing to pick layers by clicking on pixels. The available layers will
+be looped through (starting from the upper one) while Alt key is hold
+and the picked layer name will be temporarily displayed in the status
+bar. The interaction choices also heavily benefited from inputs of
+Aryeom, from *ZeMarmot* project.
+
+## Faster and safer GIMP
+
+As usual, many bugs were fixed and a lot of optimizations were made to
+existing part of the code, among them these 2 improvements are
+particularly noteworthy:
+
+### Saving and exporting safer
+
+Various parts of code where file-writing occured were made more
+robust by not overwriting the file when an error occured. In particular
+XCF saving and exporting to various image formats should be safer now.
+
+### Layer groups rendered faster
+
+Layer groups are now rendered in bigger chunks rather than tile-by-tile
+(which used to pretty much eliminate multithreading for groups), which
+improves the rendering speed.
+
+## Plug-ins
+### DDS support
+
+The third-party DDS plug-in, originally developed by Shawn Kirst and
+Arne Reuter is now part of the GIMP core plug-ins. DDS can now be loaded
+or exported out of the box.
+
+It is to be noted though that we are still looking for an active
+maintainer for this plug-in if you want to see it getting better since
+we only fixed the minimum to get it up-to-date. If you are interested, [we welcome
+patches](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/tree/master/plug-ins/file-dds).
+
+### Rewritten Spyrogimp plug-in
+
+Elad Shahar, original author of the Spyrogimp plug-in rewrote it from
+scratch completely, with more optionsand  automatic preview (by drawing
+directly on a temporary layer, not as a GEGL preview).
+
+The old plug-in is still available, in particular as its API may be used
+by existing scripts, yet is not available in menus anymore as it is
+replaced by the new version.
+
+## Filters
+
+Circular, linear, and zoom motion blurs got new on-canvas interactions
+(simple lines) allowing easier visual tweaking of the blur settings.
+
+# Around GIMP
+## GEGL and babl
+
+# What's next