It was announced the release of the new version of GIMP 2.10.32, version in which several important changes have been made, of which compatibility improvements, support improvements, as well as the addition of new effects, stand out, in addition to the fact that it is also important to mention that this new version is focused on the correction of bugs and above all point the software to the next 3.x branch.
For those who are still unaware of GIMP, they should know that this is a digital image editing program in the form of bitmaps, both drawings and photographs, and that it is open source.
GIMP 2.10.32 Main New Features
In this new version of GIMP that is presented, it is highlighted that the compatibility was improved with the TIFF format, In addition to adding the ability to import images in TIFF format with CMYK(A) color model and color depth of 8 and 16 bits. Support is also added for importing and exporting the BigTIFF format, which allows you to create files larger than 4 GB.
Another change that stands out is that the support for importing JPEG XL images, plus improved handling of metadata in PSD files, including skipping too many tags
In the DDS Image Export dialog, added an option to flip images vertically before saving, making it easy to create assets for game engines, and implemented a setting to export all visible layers.
has been addedo support for different glyph variants localized to the text tools, which are selected based on the language set (for example, when using Cyrillic, you can select specific variants for individual languages).
In the Layer, Channel, and Path dialogs in all official skins, the scroll indicator has been added to the fields with the radio buttons. On the topic of colored pictograms, the differences between pictograms with broken and whole chains are more clearly indicated.
An option has been added to the plugin for creating screenshots on the Windows platform to hover the mouse over the image (a similar option was previously available for other platforms).
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Xmp.photoshop.DocumentAncestors due to a bug in Photoshop.
- Improved import in XCF format and handling of damaged files.
- Added support for loading EPS files with transparency.
- Improved import and export of indexed images with transparency.
- Added options to save metadata in IPTC format and generate thumbnails to the export to WebP format dialog.
- A new hover effect has been added to the dark theme for radio button menus.
- The colored icon theme now has more contrast and visible icons for closing and unpinning a tab.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it, you can consult the details In the following link.
How to install GIMP on Ubuntu and derivatives?
Gimp it is quite a popular application, so it can be found within the repositories of almost all Linux distributions. But as we know, application updates are not usually available soon within Ubuntu repositories, so this can take days.
Although all is not lost, since Gimp developers offer us the installation of their application by Flatpak.
The first requirement to install Gimp from Flatpak is that your system has support for it.
Already being sure of having Flatpak installed in our system, now yes we can install Gimp from Flatpak, we do this executing the following command:
flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
Once installed, if you don't see it in the menu, you can run it using the following command:
flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP
Now if you already have Gimp installed with Flatpak and want to update to this new one version, they just need to run the following command:
flatpak update