[gimp-help] Update sliders, what's new
- From: Julien Hardlin <jhardlin src gnome org>
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- Subject: [gimp-help] Update sliders, what's new
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 06:58:56 +0000 (UTC)
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Author: Julien Hardelin <jhardlin orange fr>
Date: Sat Mar 7 07:57:38 2020 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
+ "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd";>
+
+<!-- section history:
+ 2102-05-22 j.h: reviewed
+ 2012-05-05 Marco: created
+ -->
+<sect1 id="gimp-introduction-history-2-10">
+ <title>What's new in GIMP 2.10? </title>
+
+ <para>
+ GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on
+ porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new
+ version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools,
+ better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color
+ management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters
+ and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-ui">
+ <title>Updated user interface and initial HiDPI support</title>
+ <para>
+ One thing immediately noticeable about GIMP 2.10 is the new dark theme and
+ symbolic icons enabled by default. This is meant to somewhat dim the
+ environment and shift the focus towards content.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There are now 4 user interface themes available in GIMP:
+ <emphasis>Dark</emphasis> (default), <emphasis>Gray</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Light</emphasis>, and <emphasis>System</emphasis>. Icons are now
+ separate from themes, and we maintain both color and symbolic icons, so
+ you can configure GIMP to have <emphasis>System</emphasis> theme with
+ color icons if you prefer the old look.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Moreover, icons are available in four sizes now, so that GIMP would look
+ better on HiDPI displays. GIMP will do its best to detect which size to
+ use, but you can manually override that selection in
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Interface</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Icon Themes</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Benoit Touchette, Klaus Staedtler,
+ Ville Pätsi, Aryeom Han, Jehan Pagès, Alexandre Prokoudine…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-gegl-port">
+ <title>GEGL port, high bit depth support, multi-threading, and more</title>
+ <para>
+ The ultimate goal for v2.10 was completing the port to GEGL image
+ processing library, started with v2.6 when we introduced optional use of
+ GEGL for color tools and an experimental GEGL tool, and continued with
+ v2.8 where we added GEGL-based projection of layers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Now GIMP uses GEGL for all tile management and builds an acyclic graph for
+ every project. This is a prerequisite for adding non-destructive editing
+ planned for v3.2.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There are many benefits from using GEGL, and some of them you can already
+ enjoy in GIMP 2.10.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>High bit depth support</emphasis> allows processing images with
+ up to 32-bit per color channel precision and open/export PSD, TIFF, PNG,
+ EXR, and RGBE files in their native fidelity. Additionally, FITS images
+ can be opened with up to 64-bit per channel precision.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Multi-threading</emphasis> allows making use of multiple cores
+ for processing. Not all features in GIMP make use of that, it's something
+ we intend to work on further. A point of interest is that multi-threading
+ happens through GEGL processing, but also in core GIMP itself, for
+ instance to separate painting from display code.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>GPU-side processing</emphasis> is still optional, but available
+ for systems with stable OpenCL drivers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can find configuration options for multi-threading and hardware
+ acceleration in
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>System Resources</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Ell,
+ Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-linear-color-space-workflow">
+ <title>Linear color space workflow</title>
+ <para>
+ Another benefit of using GEGL is being able to work on images in a linear
+ RGB color space as opposed to gamma-corrected (perceptual) RGB color space.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ Here is what it boils down to:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You now have both linear and perceptual versions of most blending
+ modes.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ There is now a linear version of the _Color Invert_ command.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can freely switch between the two at any time via
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Image</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Precision</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ submenu.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can choose which mode is displayed in the
+ <emphasis>Histogram</emphasis> docker.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can apply <emphasis>Levels</emphasis> and
+ <emphasis>Curves</emphasis> filters in either perceptual or linear
+ mode.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When higher than 8-bit per channel precision is used, all channels
+ data is linear.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can choose whether the gradient tool should work in perceptual
+ RGB, linear RGB, or CIE LAB color space.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Ell…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-cms">
+ <title>Color management revamped</title>
+ <para>
+ Color management is now a core feature of GIMP rather than a plug-in. This
+ made it possible, in particular, to introduce color management to all
+ custom widgets we could think of: image previews, color and pattern
+ previews etc.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ GIMP now uses LittleCMS v2, which allows it to use ICC v4 color profiles.
+ It also partially relies on the babl library for handling color
+ transforms, since babl is simply up to 10 times faster than LCMS2 for the
+ cases we tested both of them on. Eventually babl could replace LittleCMS
+ in GIMP.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-layers-masks">
+ <title>Layers and masks</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP now ships with two groups of blending modes: legacy (perceptual,
+ mostly to make old XCF files look exactly as before) and default (mostly
+ linear).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ New blend modes are:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ LCH layer modes: <emphasis>Hue</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Chroma</emphasis>, <emphasis>Color</emphasis>, and
+ <emphasis>Lightness</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Pass-Through</emphasis> mode for layer groups.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Linear Burn</emphasis>, <emphasis>Vivid Light</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Linear Light</emphasis>, <emphasis>Pin Light</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Hard Mix</emphasis>, <emphasis>Exclusion</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Merge</emphasis>, and <emphasis>Split</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ Layers, paths, and channels can also be tagged with color labels to
+ improve project organization. This will be even more useful once we add
+ multi-layer selection later on.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Compositing options for layers are exposed to users now, and all
+ layer-related settings are finally available in the
+ <emphasis>Layer Attributes</emphasis> dialog.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ Moreover, if you always need alpha in your layers, you can enable automatic
+ generation of the alpha channel in imported images upon opening them. See
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Image Import & Export</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ page for this and more policies.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Layer groups can finally have masks on:
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-lab-lch">
+ <title>More use for CIE LAB and CIE LCH</title>
+ <para>
+ With GIMP 2.10, we introduced a number of features that make use of CIE
+ LAB and CIE LCH color spaces:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Color dialogs now have an LCH color selector you can use instead of
+ HSV. The LCH selector also displays out-of-gamut warning.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A new <emphasis>Hue-Chroma</emphasis> filter in the
+ <emphasis>Colors</emphasis> menu works much like
+ <emphasis>Hue-Saturation</emphasis>, but operates in CIE LCH color
+ space.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Fuzzy Select</emphasis> and the
+ <emphasis>Bucket Fill</emphasis> tools can now select colors by their
+ values in CIE <emphasis>L</emphasis>, <emphasis>C</emphasis>, and
+ <emphasis>H</emphasis> channels.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Both the <emphasis>Color Picker</emphasis> and the <emphasis>Sample
+ Points</emphasis> dialog now display pixel values in CIE LAB and CIE
+ LCH at your preference.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Elle Stone, Ell…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools">
+ <title>New and improved tools</title>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-unified-transform">
+ <term>Unified Transform</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ New <emphasis>Unified Transform</emphasis> tool
+ (<keycombo><keycap>Shift</keycap><keycap>L</keycap></keycombo>)
+ simplifies making multiple transforms, such as scaling, rotating, and
+ correcting perspective in one go. The design is based on a functional
+ spec written by our former UX expert Peter Sikking.
+ </para>
+ <!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Mikael Magnusson, Michael Natterer…
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-warp-transform">
+ <term>Warp Transform</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The new <emphasis>Warp Transform</emphasis> tool (<keycap>W</keycap>)
+ allows doing localized transforms like growing or shifting pixels with a
+ soft brush and undo support. Such tools are commonly used in fashion
+ photography for retouching.
+ </para>
+ <!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ As such, the new tool retires the old <emphasis>iWarp</emphasis> filter
+ that was innovative at the time of its inception (and pre-dated
+ Photoshop's <emphasis>Liquify</emphasis> filter), but was ultimately
+ cumbersome to use. The <emphasis>Warp Transform</emphasis> tool also
+ features an <guilabel>Eraser</guilabel> mode to selectively remove
+ changes, previously unavailable in the <emphasis>iWarp</emphasis>
+ filter.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Muré, Michael Natterer,
+ Jonathan Tait…
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-handle-transform">
+ <term>Handle Transform</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The new <emphasis>Handle Transform</emphasis> tool
+ (<keycombo><keycap>Shift</keycap><keycap>L</keycap></keycombo>) provides
+ an interesting approach at applying scaling, rotating, and perspective
+ correction using handles placed on the canvas. People who are used to
+ editing on touch surfaces might find this tool strangely easy to grasp.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Johannes Matschke, Michael Natterer,
+ Ell…
+ </para>
+ <!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-gradient">
+ <term>Blend tool becomes Gradient tool and gets on-canvas editing</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ We renamed the <emphasis>Blend</emphasis> tool to
+ <emphasis>Gradient</emphasis> tool and changed its default shortcut to
+ <keycap>G</keycap>. But this pales in comparison to what the tool can
+ actually do now, and it's a lot.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The new tool pretty much obsoletes the old <emphasis>Gradient
+ Editor</emphasis> dialog. Now you can create and delete color stops,
+ select and shift them, assign colors to color stops, change blending and
+ coloring for segments between color stops and create new color stops
+ from midpoints <emphasis>right on the canvas</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+ <!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ All gradients available by default are also "editable" now. What it
+ means is that when you try to change an existing gradient from a system
+ folder, GIMP will create a copy of it, call it a <emphasis>Custom
+ Gradient</emphasis> and preserve it across sessions. Unless, of course,
+ you edit another 'system' gradient, in which case it will become the new
+ custom gradient.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ We intend to use the generic implementation of this later for brushes
+ and other types of resources.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Henning, Michael Natterer,
+ Ell, Øyvind Kolås…
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-selection">
+ <term>Better selection tools</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Foreground Select</emphasis> tool can finally make
+ subpixel selections in complex cases such as strays of hair on textured
+ background. Two new masking methods are now available for that.
+ </para>
+ <!-- <figure>
+ <title>New foreground select tool using Matting Global for fine
+selections of foreground objects, particularly things like find hairs.</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Select by Color</emphasis> and <emphasis>Fuzzy
+ Select</emphasis> tools now both feature a <guilabel>Draw mask</guilabel>
+ option to display future selection area with a magenta fill, and the
+ latter tool also got a <guilabel>Diagonal neighbors</guilabel> option to
+ select diagonally neighboring pixels.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For the <emphasis>Free Select</emphasis> tool, closing a polygonal/free
+ selection now doesn't confirm the selection automatically. Instead you
+ still can tweak positions of nodes (where applicable), then press
+ <keycap>Enter</keycap>, double-click inside the selection, or switch to
+ another tool to confirm the selection.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Intelligent Scissors</emphasis> tool finally allows to
+ remove the last added segment with <keycap>Backspace</keycap> key, and
+ GIMP now checks, whether the first and the last segments are distinct
+ before closing the curve.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Jan Rüegg, Daniel
+ Sabo, Ell…
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-color">
+ <term>Color tools</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ All color tools have been refactored to become GEGL-based filters, so
+ they could be properly used later on when we introduce non-destructive
+ editing. Hence, the <emphasis>Color</emphasis> submenu in the
+ <emphasis>Tools</emphasis> menu has been removed, and these filters are
+ now mostly unavailable in the toolbox.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer…
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-text">
+ <term>Text tool supports CJK and more writing systems</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Text</emphasis> tool now fully supports advanced input
+ methods for CJK and other non-western languages. The pre-edit text is
+ now displayed just as expected, depending on your platform and input
+ method engine (IME). Several input method-related bugs and crashes have
+ also been fixed.
+ </para>
+ <!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-experimental">
+ <term>Experimental tools</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Two new tools were incomplete for inclusion to GIMP 2.10 by default, but
+ still can be enabled. Please note that they are highly experimental and
+ likely to be broken for you (up to have GIMP crash). We only mention
+ them, because we need contributors to get them into the releasable state.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>N-Point Deformation</emphasis> tool introduces the kind of
+ smooth, as little rigid as possible warping you would expect physical
+ objects to have.
+ </para>
+ <!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Seamless Clone</emphasis> tool is aimed to simplify making
+ layered compositions. Typically when you paste one image into another,
+ there are all sorts of mismatches: color temperature, brightness etc.
+ This new experimental tool tries to adapt various properties of a pasted
+ image with regards to its backdrop.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To enable these tools, you need to first enable the
+ <emphasis>Playground</emphasis> page of the
+ <emphasis>Preferences</emphasis> dialog. Do it by running GIMP with a
+ <command>--show-playground</command> switch (for Windows, you might want
+ tweaking the path to GIMP in the shortcut properties accordingly). Then
+ you need to go to
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Playground</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ and enable the respective options, so that the tools would show up in
+ the toolbox.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ We need to stress again that you should only do so either if you are
+ very curious, or (which we hope for) intend to help us fix them.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Marek Dvoroznak, Barak Itkin, Jehan
+ Pagès, Michael Natterer…
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-painting">
+ <title>Digital painting improvements</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP 2.10 ships with a number of improvements requested by digital
+ painters. One of the most interesting new additions here is the
+ <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool (<keycap>Y</keycap>) that first
+ appeared in the GIMP-Painter fork.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Smudge</emphasis> tool got updates specifically targeted in
+ painting use case. The new <guilabel>No erase effect</guilabel> option
+ prevents the tools from changing alpha of pixels. And the foreground color
+ can now be blended into smudged pixels, controlled by a new
+ <guilabel>Flow</guilabel> slider, where 0 means no blending.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ All painting tools now have explicit <guilabel>Hardness</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>Force</guilabel> sliders except for the
+ <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool that only has the
+ <guilabel>Hardness</guilabel> slider.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Most importantly, GIMP now supports canvas rotation and flipping to help
+ illustrators checking proportions and perspective.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ A new <guilabel>Brush lock to view</guilabel> option gives you a choice
+ whether you want a brush locked to a certain zoom level and rotation angle
+ of the canvas. The option is available for all painting tools that use a
+ brush except for the <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ New <emphasis>Symmetry Painting</emphasis> dockable dialog, enabled on
+ per-image basis, allows to use all painting tools with various symmetries
+ (mirror, mandala, tiling…).
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ This new version of GIMP also ships with more new brushes available by
+ default.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Alexia Death, Daniel
+ Sabo, shark0r, Jehan Pagès, Ell, Jose Americo Gobbo, Aryeom Han…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-photography">
+ <title>Digital photography improvements</title>
+ <para>
+ Some of the new GEGL-based filters are specifically targeted at
+ photographers: <emphasis>Exposure</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Shadows-Highlights</emphasis>, <emphasis>High-pass</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Wavelet Decompose</emphasis>, <emphasis>Panorama
+ Projection</emphasis> and others will be an important addition to your
+ toolbox.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ On top of that, the new <emphasis>Extract Component</emphasis> filter
+ simplifies extracting a channel of an arbitrary color model (LAB, LCH,
+ CMYK etc.) from currently selected layer. If you were used to decomposing
+ and recomposing images just for this, your work will be that easier now.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Moreover, you can now use either <emphasis>darktable</emphasis> or
+ <emphasis>RawTherapee</emphasis> as GIMP plug-ins for opening raw digital
+ photos. Any recent version of either application will do.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A new <emphasis>Clip Warning</emphasis> display filter will visualize
+ underexposed and overexposed areas of a photo for you, with customizable
+ colors. For now, it’s mostly geared towards images where colors are stored
+ with floating point precision. You will mostly benefit from this if you
+ work on 16/32 bit per channel float images such as EXR and TIFF.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Ell, Thomas Manni,
+ Tobias Ellinghaus, Øyvind Kolås, Jehan Pagès, Alberto Griggio…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-effects">
+ <title>Effects</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP now ships with over <emphasis>80</emphasis> GEGL-based filters. A lot
+ of those are former GIMP effects. Here is why GEGL-based implementations
+ are better:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can apply them on images in 32-bit per color channel precision
+ mode.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can preview them right on the canvas, and if an image is larger
+ than the viewport, GIMP will render the viewport first for immediate
+ feedback.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can use split preview to compare original image with its processed
+ version and swap before/after sides both horizontally and vertically.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In a future non-destructive GIMP, you will be able to adjust settings
+ of those filters without undoing a ton of steps.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ Some of the GEGL-based filters have OpenCL version for hardware
+ acceleration. This will come in handy, if OpenCL drivers work well for you.
+ Furthermore many operations can come multi-threaded to use your processor
+ at their full power.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Thomas
+ Manni…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-usability">
+ <title>Usability improvements</title>
+ <para>
+ While working with active users, we got rid of quite a few usability
+ issues. Here are just some of these changes:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ All transformation tools now automatically disable original layer view
+ so that you could clearly see adjustments against the backdrop.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Masks can now easily be created with last values you used by just
+ pressing <keycap>Shift</keycap> and clicking on respective layer's
+ preview.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ All dialogs except the ones like <emphasis>Scale</emphasis> now
+ remember last values you used across sessions.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ All GEGL-based filters allow saving named presets and automatically
+ make timestamped presets for the last time you used them.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can now choose fill color or pattern for empty spaces after
+ resizing the canvas.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ There is a lot to improve to make GIMP better suited for professional
+ workflows. As usual, we welcome constructive discussion and recently
+ created a
+ <ulink url="https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list";>mailing
+ list</ulink> to discuss the topic of improving GIMP's usability. This is
+ a long-term enhancement process, which can take more time than localized
+ changes and features.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Daniel Sabo, Benoit
+ Touchette, Massimo Valentini, Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-file-formats">
+ <title>File formats support</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP is now capable of reading and writing TIFF, PNG, PSD, and FITS files
+ with up to 32-bit per channel precision where applicable.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The PSD plug-in additionally supports <emphasis>pass-through</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>hard mix</emphasis>, <emphasis>pin light</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>vivid light</emphasis>, and <emphasis>linear light</emphasis>
+ blending modes.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ GIMP now also ships with native WebP support, including features like
+ animation, ICC profiles, and metadata. Both importing and exporting are
+ supported.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The JPEG 2000 plug-in was rewritten to use the
+ <emphasis>OpenJPEG</emphasis> library rather than the somewhat obsolete
+ <emphasis>Jasper</emphasis> library.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Finally, the PDF plug-in now supports importing password-protected files
+ (you need to know the password) and exporting multipage PDF documents
+ (each layer will be a page).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Mukund Sivamaran,
+ Ell, Jehan Pagès, Lionel N, Darshan Kadu…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-metadata">
+ <title>Metadata viewing, editing, and preservation</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP now ships with plug-ins for viewing and editing Exif, XMP, IPTC, GPS,
+ and DICOM metadata. They are available via the
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Image</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Metadata</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice> submenu.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ GIMP will also preserve existing metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and WebP
+ files. Each plug-in has respective options when exporting to enable or
+ disable exporting the metadata.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Additionally, users now can set defaults to preserving or not preserving
+ metadata in all affected file format plug-ins at once depending on whether
+ they want complete privacy or, instead, do a lot of microstock
+ photography. The settings are available on the <emphasis>Image Import
+ & Export</emphasis> page in <emphasis>Preferences</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Benoit Touchette, Michael Natterer,
+ Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-painting-on-canvas-interaction">
+ <title>On-canvas interaction</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP 2.10 ships with a new feature that allows some GEGL-based filters to
+ render on-canvas controls. For now, this applies to just three filters:
+ <emphasis>Spiral</emphasis>, <emphasis>Supernova</emphasis>, and
+ <emphasis>Panorama Projection</emphasis>. But there will be more in the
+ future.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Ell…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-bug-reporting-recovery">
+ <title>Simplified bug reporting and crash recovery</title>
+ <para>
+ We need good bug reports to make GIMP better for you, so we introduced a
+ new feature to watch and intercept critical errors and crashes, then
+ generate a useful error log that you can copy/paste to a bug report.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>Debug dialog to simplify bug reporting</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ On development versions, the dialog will be raised on all kind of errors
+ (even minor ones). On stable releases, it will be raised only during
+ crashes. The default behavior can be customized in
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Debugging</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Please note that we still need you to provide context, e.g. what you were
+ doing when a crash occurred. A step-by-step description of how to
+ reproduce this bug will be most helpful.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Additionally, in case of a crash, GIMP will now attempt to backup all
+ images with unsaved changes, then suggest to reopen them the next time you
+ start the application.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>Crash recovery dialog</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ We cannot guarantee 100% success, but it will succeed sometimes, and this
+ might rescue your unsaved work!
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-api">
+ <title>API changes</title>
+ <para>
+ Over the course of this development cycle, we deprecated a lot of API,
+ providing a compatibility layer for 3rd party developers who write scripts
+ and plug-ins.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For the full list of changes in PDB, please
+ <ulink url="https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Release:2.10_changelog#API_Changes";>see the wiki</ulink>.
+ This ChangeLog page also has a verbose list of all other changes in 2.10.
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-roadmap">
+ <title>Roadmap and what's next</title>
+ <para>
+ We maintain a <ulink url="http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap";>roadmap
+ for GIMP development</ulink> that outlines the order of features to be
+ implemented based on priorities.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The next big update will be v3.0 that will feature GTK+3 port and a lot of
+ internal changes. For users, this will mostly mean: updated user
+ interface, better support for graphic tablets, better support for HiDPI
+ displays, better support for Wayland on Linux.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ We are also opening the 2.10.x series for new features. This means you
+ don't have to wait for exciting improvements for years anymore: any new
+ feature can indeed be backported to a 2.10.x release as long as its code
+ is not too invasive and making maintenance difficult.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ All the new features from 2.10.x will be part of 3.0 as well.
+ </para>
+ </variablelist>
+</sect1>
diff --git a/src/appendix/history.xml b/src/appendix/history.xml
index e026ac7ec..e9935d50e 100644
--- a/src/appendix/history.xml
+++ b/src/appendix/history.xml
@@ -207,4 +207,5 @@
<xi:include href="history-24.xml"/>
<xi:include href="history-26.xml"/>
<xi:include href="history-28.xml"/>
+ <xi:include href="history-2.10.xml"/>
</appendix>
diff --git a/src/gimp.xml b/src/gimp.xml
index 98e7fc953..f1bbe9d7d 100644
--- a/src/gimp.xml
+++ b/src/gimp.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
<title>GNU Image Manipulation Program</title>
<subtitle>User Manual</subtitle>
<copyright>
- <year>2002-2019</year>
+ <year>2002-2020</year>
<holder>The GIMP Documentation Team</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/src/introduction/whats-new.xml b/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
index 3ec7e3dac..d739801da 100644
--- a/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
+++ b/src/introduction/whats-new.xml
@@ -3,993 +3,87 @@
"http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd";>
<!-- section history:
- 2102-05-22 j.h: reviewed
- 2012-05-05 Marco: created
+
-->
<sect1 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new">
- <title>What's new in GIMP 2.10? </title>
+ <title>What's new in GIMP 2.10.18? </title>
<para>
- GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on
- porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new
- version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools,
- better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color
- management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters
- and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.
- </para>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-ui">
- <title>Updated user interface and initial HiDPI support</title>
- <para>
- One thing immediately noticeable about GIMP 2.10 is the new dark theme and
- symbolic icons enabled by default. This is meant to somewhat dim the
- environment and shift the focus towards content.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- There are now 4 user interface themes available in GIMP:
- <emphasis>Dark</emphasis> (default), <emphasis>Gray</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>Light</emphasis>, and <emphasis>System</emphasis>. Icons are now
- separate from themes, and we maintain both color and symbolic icons, so
- you can configure GIMP to have <emphasis>System</emphasis> theme with
- color icons if you prefer the old look.
- </para>
- <para>
- Moreover, icons are available in four sizes now, so that GIMP would look
- better on HiDPI displays. GIMP will do its best to detect which size to
- use, but you can manually override that selection in
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
- <guisubmenu>Interface</guisubmenu>
- <guisubmenu>Icon Themes</guisubmenu>
- </menuchoice>.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Benoit Touchette, Klaus Staedtler,
- Ville Pätsi, Aryeom Han, Jehan Pagès, Alexandre Prokoudine…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-gegl-port">
- <title>GEGL port, high bit depth support, multi-threading, and more</title>
- <para>
- The ultimate goal for v2.10 was completing the port to GEGL image
- processing library, started with v2.6 when we introduced optional use of
- GEGL for color tools and an experimental GEGL tool, and continued with
- v2.8 where we added GEGL-based projection of layers.
- </para>
- <para>
- Now GIMP uses GEGL for all tile management and builds an acyclic graph for
- every project. This is a prerequisite for adding non-destructive editing
- planned for v3.2.
- </para>
- <para>
- There are many benefits from using GEGL, and some of them you can already
- enjoy in GIMP 2.10.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>High bit depth support</emphasis> allows processing images with
- up to 32-bit per color channel precision and open/export PSD, TIFF, PNG,
- EXR, and RGBE files in their native fidelity. Additionally, FITS images
- can be opened with up to 64-bit per channel precision.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Multi-threading</emphasis> allows making use of multiple cores
- for processing. Not all features in GIMP make use of that, it's something
- we intend to work on further. A point of interest is that multi-threading
- happens through GEGL processing, but also in core GIMP itself, for
- instance to separate painting from display code.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>GPU-side processing</emphasis> is still optional, but available
- for systems with stable OpenCL drivers.
- </para>
- <para>
- You can find configuration options for multi-threading and hardware
- acceleration in
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
- <guisubmenu>System Resources</guisubmenu>
- </menuchoice>.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Ell,
- Jehan Pagès…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-linear-color-space-workflow">
- <title>Linear color space workflow</title>
- <para>
- Another benefit of using GEGL is being able to work on images in a linear
- RGB color space as opposed to gamma-corrected (perceptual) RGB color space.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- Here is what it boils down to:
- </para>
+ GIMP-2.10.16 release was skipped, due to a critical bug. It has been fixed.
+ Here are GIMP-2.10.18 release highlights:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- You now have both linear and perceptual versions of most blending
- modes.
+ Tools are now grouped in the toolbox by default.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- There is now a linear version of the _Color Invert_ command.
+ Sliders now use a compact style with improved user interaction: refer to
+ <xref linkend="sliders"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- You can freely switch between the two at any time via
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Image</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Precision</guisubmenu>
- </menuchoice>
- submenu.
+ Vastly improved user experience for the transformation preview.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- You can choose which mode is displayed in the
- <emphasis>Histogram</emphasis> docker.
+ Dockable areas now highlighted when a dockable dialog is being dragged.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- You can apply <emphasis>Levels</emphasis> and
- <emphasis>Curves</emphasis> filters in either perceptual or linear
- mode.
+ New 3D Transform tool to rotate and pan items.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- When higher than 8-bit per channel precision is used, all channels
- data is linear.
+ Much smoother brush outline preview motion on the canvas.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- You can choose whether the gradient tool should work in perceptual
- RGB, linear RGB, or CIE LAB color space.
+ Symmetry painting enhancements
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Ell…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-cms">
- <title>Color management revamped</title>
- <para>
- Color management is now a core feature of GIMP rather than a plug-in. This
- made it possible, in particular, to introduce color management to all
- custom widgets we could think of: image previews, color and pattern
- previews etc.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- GIMP now uses LittleCMS v2, which allows it to use ICC v4 color profiles.
- It also partially relies on the babl library for handling color
- transforms, since babl is simply up to 10 times faster than LCMS2 for the
- cases we tested both of them on. Eventually babl could replace LittleCMS
- in GIMP.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-layers-masks">
- <title>Layers and masks</title>
- <para>
- GIMP now ships with two groups of blending modes: legacy (perceptual,
- mostly to make old XCF files look exactly as before) and default (mostly
- linear).
- </para>
- <para>
- New blend modes are:
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- LCH layer modes: <emphasis>Hue</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>Chroma</emphasis>, <emphasis>Color</emphasis>, and
- <emphasis>Lightness</emphasis>.
+ Faster loading of ABR brushes: GIMP now spends a lot less time loading
+ Photoshop’s brushes (ABR). So if you use a lot of those, the startup
+ time will become pleasantly smaller, by order of a magnitude. The
+ technical explanation is that GIMP used to read the stream of ABR data
+ byte by byte, and now it uses scanline reading instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <emphasis>Pass-Through</emphasis> mode for layer groups.
+ PSD support improvements: PSD support improvements PSD files now load
+ faster mostly by eliminating excessive copies between the original
+ file and the project representation inside GIMP. For large PSD files,
+ the loading is now ~1.5 to ~2 times faster.\n
+ Moreover, GIMP is now capable of loading CMYK(A) PSD files (only 8-bit
+ per channel for now). It does so by converting pixels to RGB(A) float
+ using sRGB as the profile which, we know, is not good enough for serious
+ work. However, the plug-in is already using BABL formats to specify and
+ communicate CMYK pixel format encodings with GIMP. This is a good first
+ step towards better CMYK support. It can be improved both on its own as
+ well as integrate with the ongoing work enabling general color-space
+ support for BABL formats in the development branch.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <emphasis>Linear Burn</emphasis>, <emphasis>Vivid Light</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>Linear Light</emphasis>, <emphasis>Pin Light</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>Hard Mix</emphasis>, <emphasis>Exclusion</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>Merge</emphasis>, and <emphasis>Split</emphasis>.
+ Consolidated user interface for merging down and anchoring layers
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>
- Layers, paths, and channels can also be tagged with color labels to
- improve project organization. This will be even more useful once we add
- multi-layer selection later on.
- </para>
- <para>
- Compositing options for layers are exposed to users now, and all
- layer-related settings are finally available in the
- <emphasis>Layer Attributes</emphasis> dialog.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- Moreover, if you always need alpha in your layers, you can enable automatic
- generation of the alpha channel in imported images upon opening them. See
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
- <guisubmenu>Image Import & Export</guisubmenu>
- </menuchoice>
- page for this and more policies.
- </para>
- <para>
- Layer groups can finally have masks on:
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-lab-lch">
- <title>More use for CIE LAB and CIE LCH</title>
- <para>
- With GIMP 2.10, we introduced a number of features that make use of CIE
- LAB and CIE LCH color spaces:
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Color dialogs now have an LCH color selector you can use instead of
- HSV. The LCH selector also displays out-of-gamut warning.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A new <emphasis>Hue-Chroma</emphasis> filter in the
- <emphasis>Colors</emphasis> menu works much like
- <emphasis>Hue-Saturation</emphasis>, but operates in CIE LCH color
- space.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The <emphasis>Fuzzy Select</emphasis> and the
- <emphasis>Bucket Fill</emphasis> tools can now select colors by their
- values in CIE <emphasis>L</emphasis>, <emphasis>C</emphasis>, and
- <emphasis>H</emphasis> channels.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Both the <emphasis>Color Picker</emphasis> and the <emphasis>Sample
- Points</emphasis> dialog now display pixel values in CIE LAB and CIE
- LCH at your preference.
+ Update check to notify users of new releases available
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Elle Stone, Ell…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools">
- <title>New and improved tools</title>
-
- <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-unified-transform">
- <title>Unified Transform</title>
- <para>
- New <emphasis>Unified Transform</emphasis> tool
- (<keycombo><keycap>Shift</keycap><keycap>L</keycap></keycombo>) simplifies
- making multiple transforms, such as scaling, rotating, and correcting
- perspective in one go. The design is based on a functional spec written
- by our former UX expert Peter Sikking.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Mikael Magnusson, Michael Natterer…
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-warp-transform">
- <title>Warp Transform</title>
- <para>
- The new <emphasis>Warp Transform</emphasis> tool (<keycap>W</keycap>)
- allows doing localized transforms like growing or shifting pixels with a
- soft brush and undo support. Such tools are commonly used in fashion
- photography for retouching.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- As such, the new tool retires the old <emphasis>iWarp</emphasis> filter
- that was innovative at the time of its inception (and pre-dated
- Photoshop's <emphasis>Liquify</emphasis> filter), but was ultimately
- cumbersome to use. The <emphasis>Warp Transform</emphasis> tool also
- features an <guilabel>Eraser</guilabel> mode to selectively remove
- changes, previously unavailable in the <emphasis>iWarp</emphasis>
- filter.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Muré, Michael Natterer,
- Jonathan Tait…
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-handle-transform">
- <title>Handle Transform</title>
- <para>
- The new <emphasis>Handle Transform</emphasis> tool
- (<keycombo><keycap>Shift</keycap><keycap>L</keycap></keycombo>) provides
- an interesting approach at applying scaling, rotating, and perspective
- correction using handles placed on the canvas. People who are used to
- editing on touch surfaces might find this tool strangely easy to grasp.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Johannes Matschke, Michael Natterer,
- Ell…
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-gradient">
- <title>Blend tool becomes Gradient tool and gets on-canvas editing</title>
- <para>
- We renamed the <emphasis>Blend</emphasis> tool to
- <emphasis>Gradient</emphasis> tool and changed its default shortcut to
- <keycap>G</keycap>. But this pales in comparison to what the tool can
- actually do now, and it's a lot.
- </para>
- <para>
- The new tool pretty much obsoletes the old <emphasis>Gradient
- Editor</emphasis> dialog. Now you can create and delete color stops,
- select and shift them, assign colors to color stops, change blending and
- coloring for segments between color stops and create new color stops
- from midpoints <emphasis>right on the canvas</emphasis>.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- All gradients available by default are also "editable" now. What it
- means is that when you try to change an existing gradient from a system
- folder, GIMP will create a copy of it, call it a <emphasis>Custom
- Gradient</emphasis> and preserve it across sessions. Unless, of course,
- you edit another 'system' gradient, in which case it will become the new
- custom gradient.
- </para>
- <para>
- We intend to use the generic implementation of this later for brushes
- and other types of resources.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Henning, Michael Natterer,
- Ell, Øyvind Kolås…
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-selection">
- <title>Better selection tools</title>
- <para>
- The <emphasis>Foreground Select</emphasis> tool can finally make
- subpixel selections in complex cases such as strays of hair on textured
- background. Two new masking methods are now available for that.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>New foreground select tool using Matting Global for fine selections of foreground objects,
particularly things like find hairs.</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- The <emphasis>Select by Color</emphasis> and <emphasis>Fuzzy
- Select</emphasis> tools now both feature a <guilabel>Draw mask</guilabel>
- option to display future selection area with a magenta fill, and the
- latter tool also got a <guilabel>Diagonal neighbors</guilabel> option to
- select diagonally neighboring pixels.
- </para>
- <para>
- For the <emphasis>Free Select</emphasis> tool, closing a polygonal/free
- selection now doesn't confirm the selection automatically. Instead you
- still can tweak positions of nodes (where applicable), then press
- <keycap>Enter</keycap>, double-click inside the selection, or switch to
- another tool to confirm the selection.
- </para>
- <para>
- The <emphasis>Intelligent Scissors</emphasis> tool finally allows to
- remove the last added segment with <keycap>Backspace</keycap> key, and
- GIMP now checks, whether the first and the last segments are distinct
- before closing the curve.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Jan Rüegg, Daniel
- Sabo, Ell…
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-color">
- <title>Color tools</title>
- <para>
- All color tools have been refactored to become GEGL-based filters, so
- they could be properly used later on when we introduce non-destructive
- editing. Hence, the <emphasis>Color</emphasis> submenu in the
- <emphasis>Tools</emphasis> menu has been removed, and these filters are
- now mostly unavailable in the toolbox.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer…
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-text">
- <title>Text tool supports CJK and more writing systems</title>
- <para>
- The <emphasis>Text</emphasis> tool now fully supports advanced input
- methods for CJK and other non-western languages. The pre-edit text is
- now displayed just as expected, depending on your platform and input
- method engine (IME). Several input method-related bugs and crashes have
- also been fixed.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Jehan Pagès…
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-experimental">
- <title>Experimental tools</title>
- <para>
- Two new tools were incomplete for inclusion to GIMP 2.10 by default, but
- still can be enabled. Please note that they are highly experimental and
- likely to be broken for you (up to have GIMP crash). We only mention
- them, because we need contributors to get them into the releasable state.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>N-Point Deformation</emphasis> tool introduces the kind of
- smooth, as little rigid as possible warping you would expect physical
- objects to have.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- The <emphasis>Seamless Clone</emphasis> tool is aimed to simplify making
- layered compositions. Typically when you paste one image into another,
- there are all sorts of mismatches: color temperature, brightness etc.
- This new experimental tool tries to adapt various properties of a pasted
- image with regards to its backdrop.
- </para>
- <para>
- To enable these tools, you need to first enable the
- <emphasis>Playground</emphasis> page of the
- <emphasis>Preferences</emphasis> dialog. Do it by running GIMP with a
- <command>--show-playground</command> switch (for Windows, you might want
- tweaking the path to GIMP in the shortcut properties accordingly). Then
- you need to go to
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
- <guisubmenu>Playground</guisubmenu>
- </menuchoice>
- and enable the respective options, so that the tools would show up in
- the toolbox.
- </para>
- <para>
- We need to stress again that you should only do so either if you are
- very curious, or (which we hope for) intend to help us fix them.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Marek Dvoroznak, Barak Itkin, Jehan
- Pagès, Michael Natterer…
- </para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-painting">
- <title>Digital painting improvements</title>
- <para>
- GIMP 2.10 ships with a number of improvements requested by digital
- painters. One of the most interesting new additions here is the
- <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool (<keycap>Y</keycap>) that first
- appeared in the GIMP-Painter fork.
- </para>
- <para>
- The <emphasis>Smudge</emphasis> tool got updates specifically targeted in
- painting use case. The new <guilabel>No erase effect</guilabel> option
- prevents the tools from changing alpha of pixels. And the foreground color
- can now be blended into smudged pixels, controlled by a new
- <guilabel>Flow</guilabel> slider, where 0 means no blending.
- </para>
- <para>
- All painting tools now have explicit <guilabel>Hardness</guilabel> and
- <guilabel>Force</guilabel> sliders except for the
- <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool that only has the
- <guilabel>Hardness</guilabel> slider.
- </para>
- <para>
- Most importantly, GIMP now supports canvas rotation and flipping to help
- illustrators checking proportions and perspective.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- A new <guilabel>Brush lock to view</guilabel> option gives you a choice
- whether you want a brush locked to a certain zoom level and rotation angle
- of the canvas. The option is available for all painting tools that use a
- brush except for the <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool.
- </para>
- <para>
- New <emphasis>Symmetry Painting</emphasis> dockable dialog, enabled on
- per-image basis, allows to use all painting tools with various symmetries
- (mirror, mandala, tiling…).
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- This new version of GIMP also ships with more new brushes available by
- default.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Alexia Death, Daniel
- Sabo, shark0r, Jehan Pagès, Ell, Jose Americo Gobbo, Aryeom Han…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-photography">
- <title>Digital photography improvements</title>
- <para>
- Some of the new GEGL-based filters are specifically targeted at
- photographers: <emphasis>Exposure</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>Shadows-Highlights</emphasis>, <emphasis>High-pass</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>Wavelet Decompose</emphasis>, <emphasis>Panorama
- Projection</emphasis> and others will be an important addition to your
- toolbox.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- On top of that, the new <emphasis>Extract Component</emphasis> filter
- simplifies extracting a channel of an arbitrary color model (LAB, LCH,
- CMYK etc.) from currently selected layer. If you were used to decomposing
- and recomposing images just for this, your work will be that easier now.
- </para>
- <para>
- Moreover, you can now use either <emphasis>darktable</emphasis> or
- <emphasis>RawTherapee</emphasis> as GIMP plug-ins for opening raw digital
- photos. Any recent version of either application will do.
- </para>
- <para>
- A new <emphasis>Clip Warning</emphasis> display filter will visualize
- underexposed and overexposed areas of a photo for you, with customizable
- colors. For now, it’s mostly geared towards images where colors are stored
- with floating point precision. You will mostly benefit from this if you
- work on 16/32 bit per channel float images such as EXR and TIFF.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Ell, Thomas Manni,
- Tobias Ellinghaus, Øyvind Kolås, Jehan Pagès, Alberto Griggio…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-effects">
- <title>Effects</title>
- <para>
- GIMP now ships with over <emphasis>80</emphasis> GEGL-based filters. A lot
- of those are former GIMP effects. Here is why GEGL-based implementations
- are better:
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You can apply them on images in 32-bit per color channel precision
- mode.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You can preview them right on the canvas, and if an image is larger
- than the viewport, GIMP will render the viewport first for immediate
- feedback.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You can use split preview to compare original image with its processed
- version and swap before/after sides both horizontally and vertically.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- In a future non-destructive GIMP, you will be able to adjust settings
- of those filters without undoing a ton of steps.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- Some of the GEGL-based filters have OpenCL version for hardware
- acceleration. This will come in handy, if OpenCL drivers work well for you.
- Furthermore many operations can come multi-threaded to use your processor
- at their full power.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Thomas
- Manni…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-usability">
- <title>Usability improvements</title>
- <para>
- While working with active users, we got rid of quite a few usability
- issues. Here are just some of these changes:
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- All transformation tools now automatically disable original layer view
- so that you could clearly see adjustments against the backdrop.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Masks can now easily be created with last values you used by just
- pressing <keycap>Shift</keycap> and clicking on respective layer's
- preview.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- All dialogs except the ones like <emphasis>Scale</emphasis> now
- remember last values you used across sessions.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- All GEGL-based filters allow saving named presets and automatically
- make timestamped presets for the last time you used them.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You can now choose fill color or pattern for empty spaces after
- resizing the canvas.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>
- There is a lot to improve to make GIMP better suited for professional
- workflows. As usual, we welcome constructive discussion and recently
- created a
- <ulink url="https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list";>mailing
- list</ulink> to discuss the topic of improving GIMP's usability. This is
- a long-term enhancement process, which can take more time than localized
- changes and features.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Daniel Sabo, Benoit
- Touchette, Massimo Valentini, Jehan Pagès…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-file-formats">
- <title>File formats support</title>
- <para>
- GIMP is now capable of reading and writing TIFF, PNG, PSD, and FITS files
- with up to 32-bit per channel precision where applicable.
- </para>
- <para>
- The PSD plug-in additionally supports <emphasis>pass-through</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>hard mix</emphasis>, <emphasis>pin light</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>vivid light</emphasis>, and <emphasis>linear light</emphasis>
- blending modes.
- </para>
- <para>
- GIMP now also ships with native WebP support, including features like
- animation, ICC profiles, and metadata. Both importing and exporting are
- supported.
- </para>
- <para>
- The JPEG 2000 plug-in was rewritten to use the
- <emphasis>OpenJPEG</emphasis> library rather than the somewhat obsolete
- <emphasis>Jasper</emphasis> library.
- </para>
- <para>
- Finally, the PDF plug-in now supports importing password-protected files
- (you need to know the password) and exporting multipage PDF documents
- (each layer will be a page).
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Mukund Sivamaran,
- Ell, Jehan Pagès, Lionel N, Darshan Kadu…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-metadata">
- <title>Metadata viewing, editing, and preservation</title>
- <para>
- GIMP now ships with plug-ins for viewing and editing Exif, XMP, IPTC, GPS,
- and DICOM metadata. They are available via the
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Image</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Metadata</guisubmenu>
- </menuchoice> submenu.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- GIMP will also preserve existing metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and WebP
- files. Each plug-in has respective options when exporting to enable or
- disable exporting the metadata.
- </para>
- <para>
- Additionally, users now can set defaults to preserving or not preserving
- metadata in all affected file format plug-ins at once depending on whether
- they want complete privacy or, instead, do a lot of microstock
- photography. The settings are available on the <emphasis>Image Import
- & Export</emphasis> page in <emphasis>Preferences</emphasis>.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Benoit Touchette, Michael Natterer,
- Jehan Pagès…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-painting-on-canvas-interaction">
- <title>On-canvas interaction</title>
- <para>
- GIMP 2.10 ships with a new feature that allows some GEGL-based filters to
- render on-canvas controls. For now, this applies to just three filters:
- <emphasis>Spiral</emphasis>, <emphasis>Supernova</emphasis>, and
- <emphasis>Panorama Projection</emphasis>. But there will be more in the
- future.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Ell…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-bug-reporting-recovery">
- <title>Simplified bug reporting and crash recovery</title>
- <para>
- We need good bug reports to make GIMP better for you, so we introduced a
- new feature to watch and intercept critical errors and crashes, then
- generate a useful error log that you can copy/paste to a bug report.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>Debug dialog to simplify bug reporting</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- On development versions, the dialog will be raised on all kind of errors
- (even minor ones). On stable releases, it will be raised only during
- crashes. The default behavior can be customized in
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
- <guisubmenu>Debugging</guisubmenu>
- </menuchoice>.
- </para>
- <para>
- Please note that we still need you to provide context, e.g. what you were
- doing when a crash occurred. A step-by-step description of how to
- reproduce this bug will be most helpful.
- </para>
- <para>
- Additionally, in case of a crash, GIMP will now attempt to backup all
- images with unsaved changes, then suggest to reopen them the next time you
- start the application.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>Crash recovery dialog</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- <para>
- We cannot guarantee 100% success, but it will succeed sometimes, and this
- might rescue your unsaved work!
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Jehan Pagès…
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-api">
- <title>API changes</title>
- <para>
- Over the course of this development cycle, we deprecated a lot of API,
- providing a compatibility layer for 3rd party developers who write scripts
- and plug-ins.
- </para>
- <para>
- For the full list of changes in PDB, please
- <ulink url="https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Release:2.10_changelog#API_Changes";>see the wiki</ulink>.
- This ChangeLog page also has a verbose list of all other changes in 2.10.
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-roadmap">
- <title>Roadmap and what's next</title>
- <para>
- We maintain a <ulink url="http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap";>roadmap
- for GIMP development</ulink> that outlines the order of features to be
- implemented based on priorities.
- </para>
- <para>
- The next big update will be v3.0 that will feature GTK+3 port and a lot of
- internal changes. For users, this will mostly mean: updated user
- interface, better support for graphic tablets, better support for HiDPI
- displays, better support for Wayland on Linux.
- </para>
- <para>
- We are also opening the 2.10.x series for new features. This means you
- don't have to wait for exciting improvements for years anymore: any new
- feature can indeed be backported to a 2.10.x release as long as its code
- is not too invasive and making maintenance difficult.
- </para>
- <para>
- All the new features from 2.10.x will be part of 3.0 as well.
- </para>
- </sect2>
+ </para>
</sect1>
+
diff --git a/src/toolbox/intro.xml b/src/toolbox/intro.xml
index 4bdf924f3..0336278fe 100644
--- a/src/toolbox/intro.xml
+++ b/src/toolbox/intro.xml
@@ -267,66 +267,49 @@
</variablelist>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry id="sliders">
<term>New sliders</term>
<listitem>
<indexterm>
<primary>Sliders</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>
- Option sliders have changed with GIMP-2.8: it is not visible, but
- the slider area is now divided into upper and lower parts.
- </para>
- <figure>
- <title>The new sliders of tool options dialogs</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="images/toolbox/slider-fast.png"/>
- </imageobject>
- <caption>
+ Option sliders have changed with GIMP-2.10.18: Sliders typically used
+ in GEGL-based filters and tools’ options now have a compact style
+ by default: they take a lot less space vertically and have a vastly
+ improved behavior. You can use multiple modifiers with either
+ left-click or mouse wheel scrolling:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- The upwards arrow pointer in the top half of the slider area
+ <emphasis role="bold">Left-click + drag</emphasis> changes a
+ value with a default increment.
</para>
- </caption>
- </mediaobject>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Shift + left-click + drag (or right-click +
+ drag)</emphasis> changes a value with a smaller step .
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Ctrl + left-click + drag</emphasis>
+ changes a value with a larger step.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Here is the full reference:
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="images/toolbox/slider-slow.png"/>
+ fileref="images/toolbox/new-slider-interaction.png"/>
</imageobject>
- <caption>
- <para>
- The horizontal two-way arrow pointer in the lower half of
- the slider area
- </para>
- </caption>
</mediaobject>
- </figure>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <formalpara>
- <title>In the top half of the slider area:</title>
- <para>
- Clicking with the up arrow pointer sets slider to a value that
- depends on the position of the pointer (no reference,
- imprecise).
- Clicking and dragging the up arrow pointer sets the value by
- large amounts.
- </para>
- </formalpara>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <formalpara>
- <title>In the lower half of the slider area:</title>
- <para>
- Clicking with the two-way arrow pointer has no effect.
- Clicking and dragging the two-way arrow pointer sets the value
- by small amounts.
- </para>
- </formalpara>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+
<para>
Once you have set the value approximately, you can tune it precisely
using the two small arrow buttons at the right of the slider.
@@ -337,8 +320,8 @@
</para>
<para>
For some options, you can drag the pointer outside the tool dialog.
- For example with the size slider, whose maximum value is 10,000,
- you can drag the mouse pointer up to the right side of your screen.
+ For example with the size slider, you can get the maximum value
+ (10000) so.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -346,7 +329,7 @@
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Mouse Scroll-Wheel actions</term>
+ <term>Mouse Scroll-Wheel actions on canvas</term>
<listitem>
<indexterm>
<primary>Mouse Scroll-Wheel</primary>
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