{"id":737591,"date":"2013-02-07T07:34:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=128930"},"modified":"2013-02-07T07:34:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:34:31","slug":"gimp-2-8-4-adds-improvements-and-polish-to-the-popular-image-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/737591","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 2.8.4 adds improvements and polish to the popular image editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-128941\" title=\"Gimp logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Gimp-logo-300x288.png?resize=300%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/>Popular open-source image editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/2856-gimp\" >GIMP 2.8.4 FINAL<\/a> has been released for Linux and Windows, with a Mac binary build due for release imminently. Version 2.8.4 is a minor stability release, but does contain a number of interesting improvements, including more responsive drawing -- particularly with the brush outline tool -- plus better names for the default filters when saving or exporting.<\/p>\n<p>GIMP 2.8.4 will also be the second OS X release that runs natively on the Mac -- 2.8.0 and earlier required X11, and many improvements in this release are aimed specifically at that platform.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the improved responsiveness and filter tweaks, other user interface changes include GIMP now remembering the maximized state of windows across sessions, allowing the text tool to start on a non-layered image and various other fixes for text style attribute handling.<\/p>\n<p>Plug-in improvements include better default values being set in the Drop Shadow script and a major round of bug fixes for the BMP plug-in.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128932 alignleft\" title=\"Gimp\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Gimp-300x189.png?resize=300%2C189\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/>Platform-specific improvements concentrate on the OS X platform -- the gimpdir has been moved to the user\u2019s Library\\Application Support folder, while the system screenshot tool is now used when creating a new image from a screenshot. Plug-in windows should now automatically appear on top, and users can now select their chosen language via GIMP\u2019s Preferences dialog.<\/p>\n<p>One addition to the Windows installer is the addition of a Brazilian-Portuguese translation.<\/p>\n<p>The stability update builds on the major 2.8.0 release from last year, which saw GIMP radically overhaul its user interface with such elements as a new \u2018single-window\u2019 mode, multi-column Dock windows, a brand new Cage Transform tool and the ability to organise layers into groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/2856-gimp\" >GIMP 2.8.4 FINAL<\/a> is available now as a free, open-source download for Windows, Linux and -- coming soon -- Mac OS X.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=C12Q_nToA_U:gl0R5wYertw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=C12Q_nToA_U:gl0R5wYertw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/C12Q_nToA_U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular open-source image editor GIMP 2.8.4 FINAL has been released for Linux and Windows, with a Mac binary build due for release imminently. Version 2.8.4 is a minor stability release, but does contain a number of interesting improvements, including more responsive drawing &#8212; particularly with the brush outline tool &#8212; plus better names for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35SD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}