A new Gimp (2.4)
The Gimp team officially released version 2.4 today! See the release notes for the official scoop.
A day or so ago, Red Hat Magazine had a nice piece on Gimp 2.4 and its inclusion in Fedora 8 (due out the first part of November). This article has some nice screenshots and explanations about how new features will work.
I haven’t touched it yet, but Gimp 2.4 looks to take this open source image manipulation program to a plane where I think it can actually be compared side-by-side with Adobe Photoshop. I don’t think anyone could have said that before, but the additional of professional color management in Gimp 2.4 goes a long way toward filling in huge gaps that have existed up until now.
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I've been using The Gimp for web and print graphics for about 2 years. Before that, I used Photoshop for about 8 years. I find that The Gimp does everything I need.
It probably took me a year or so of off-and-on testing to figure out how everything in The Gimp works. At first, I didn't even think you could draw a strait line (it turns out to be very easy and intuitive). Now that I'm familiar with it, it's a snap.
The new version looks like it has some great new features. I'll probably go grab the source rather than wait for this to become available in my distro (Debian).
One thing I'd like to see is an option to automatically re-size layers to match the image. The Gimp doesn't do that by default, instead it leaves pasted layers smaller or bigger than the actual image. That turns out to be a good thing, in some cases, but I find myself using the "Layer to Image Size" menu too often.
Joel