GIMP developers on loose

Published on February 26, 2010 in Development and Graphics. 4 Comments Tags: , .

You’ve been craving for that, you really have:

Text styles in GIMP

Yes, not only you can edit text on canvas in GIMP now, you can also use different styles in same text block. It’s as simple as selecting text and clicking a button. And full undo/redo works on text level too. All praise goes to Michael Natterer :)

There’s a lot of goodness in the brush dynamics department too: Alexia went ahead and started working on UI for response curves. So soon you’ll be able to tune your styluses for GIMP almost like in MyPaint.

And did I say that recently released GEGL and babl are experimentally threaded now, so re speed they are on par with legacy 8bit GIMP, while retaining 32bit float per channel accuracy?

  • http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com Troy James Sobotka

    Please Alex, do your best to push the two most incriminating issues in GIMP. UI is great, but the ability to actually do the work is monumental:

    1) Deep colour. We need to be able to hold a solid range of OpenEXR depth in GIMP.

    2) Performance. As everyone seems to be _finally_ paying attention to (Krita for example) it is of the utmost importance that a traditional artist can move the stylus and get the feedback on the canvas.

    Free Software is _tremendous_ at solving problems, and performance is one of them. How can we have the best performance of all digital painting apps? GL accelleration isn’t quite the answer as it will yield different results on different processors…

    Great blog Alex… keep it up!

  • http://www.prokoudine.info Alexandre

    1) Deep colour. We need to be able to hold a solid range of OpenEXR depth in GIMP.

    Last time I asked Martin, plans for final integration of GEGL will be made after release of v2.8. He is also aware of demand for more than 32bpc float, so this is definitely on radar.

    2) Performance.

    Guess what — I can paint with a 300px large brush and see changes immediately :)

    How can we have the best performance of all digital painting apps?

    Er… Mipmaps sounds like an answer :)

  • Alexander

    2.7.1 – when will it be born? :)

  • http://www.prokoudine.info Alexandre

    @Alexander: when it’s ready, as usual :)