[gimp-web] GIMP 2.99.6 news: some updates and some screenshots.



commit 9480dcc3b865627304df35d412cb6a735c460587
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Wed May 5 23:17:47 2021 +0200

    GIMP 2.99.6 news: some updates and some screenshots.

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Title: Development version: GIMP 2.99.6 Released
-Date: 2021-04-25
+Date: 2021-05-07
 Category: News
 Authors: Wilber
 Slug: gimp-2-99-6-released
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Summary: "Don't worry, be h-API"
 Status: draft
 
 GIMP 2.99.6 contains quite a few visible and interesting improvements,
-yet the biggest changes are hidden to the general eyes into the API
-(Application Programming Interface for plug-in developers) which
-is evolving quite steadily.
+yet the biggest changes are hidden from the public eye into the quite
+steadily evolding API (Application Programming Interface for plug-in
+developers).
 
 ⚠️  Many of the third-party plug-ins already ported for GIMP 2.99.2 or
 2.99.4 will end up broken, and there is a high chance they will break
@@ -81,9 +81,8 @@ This is very fresh news as we merged this code (by Povilas Kanapickas,
 brand new contributor!) only a few days ago: GIMP now has pinch gesture
 support for touchpads, some tablets or touch screens (it might not work
 with all tablets and touch screens). In other words, if you have a
-device with touch support, such as a laptop touchpad (also tested
-successfully with a Wacom Intuos Pro), you can zoom in and out through
-pinching movements with your fingers.
+device with touch support, you can zoom in and out through pinching
+movements with your fingers.
 
 This is known to work on Linux/Wayland (tested successfully on a laptop
 touchpad and a Wacom Intuos Pro) and it might work in a few months in
@@ -119,15 +118,31 @@ fast. Expect more to come!
 This work has been happening both on GIMP code base and on our graphics
 engine library's code base, GEGL.
 
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}gimp-2.99.6-paint-select-tool-test.gif"
+     alt="Copy-pasting Wilber in a few seconds with the Paint Select tool (realtime GIF) - GIMP 2.99.6"/>
+<figcaption>
+<em>Copy-pasting Wilber in a few seconds with the Paint Select tool (realtime GIF) - GIMP 2.99.6</em>
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
 As a side note, the Paint Select tool now has its own icons, original
 design by Yash Arya, with collaborative work and design finalisation by
 Aryeom.
 
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}gimp-2.99.6-icon-tool-paint-select.png"
+     alt="New Paint Select tool icon by Yash Arya and Aryeom - GIMP 2.99.6"/>
+<figcaption>
+<em>New Paint Select tool icon by Yash Arya and Aryeom - GIMP 2.99.6</em>
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
 # Plug-ins
-## PNG gAMA and cHRM chunks
+## PNG: color profile generated from imported gAMA and cHRM chunks
 
 The PNG format has several ways to manage colors, one of them is through
-color profiles, which is also the logics in GIMP, as in any modern
+color profiles, which is also the logics in GIMP as in any modern
 graphics editor. In the PNG specification, the presence of a color
 profile is considered priority and overrides any of the other color
 management methods.
@@ -143,10 +158,10 @@ GIMP's core logics never supported (and still won't because it is an old
 deprecated method which should not be implemented to new code) only
 using such a single gamma value. Yet we wanted to be able to read and
 display such images correctly.
-GIMP's historical workaround was to store the `gAMA` and `cHRM` values
-in a `parasite` on the XCF file, and just put it back when exporting to
-PNG again which means that the image was wrongly displayed in GIMP
-itself but fine after export.
+Our historical workaround was to store the `gAMA` and `cHRM` values in a
+`parasite` on the XCF file, and just put it back when exporting to PNG
+again which means that the image was wrongly displayed in GIMP itself
+but fine after export.
 
 Now GIMP will propose creating an actual ICC profile from the `gAMA` and
 `cHRM` chunks, thus the image will be properly displayed. Since we don't
@@ -158,6 +173,14 @@ equivalent ICC profile). Note that it is also recommended by the PNG
 spec to [export with ICC profiles when a encoder software supports
 it](http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Encoders.html#E.Encoder-color-handling).
 
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}gimp-2.99.6-color-profile-from-png-chunks.png"
+     alt="Generating a color profile from PNG gAMA and cHRM chunks - GIMP 2.99.6"/>
+<figcaption>
+<em>Generating a color profile from PNG gAMA and cHRM chunks - GIMP 2.99.6</em>
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
 ## More plug-in work
 
 Our screenshot plug-in has several implementations and used to always


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