GIMP 2.10 Officially Released as the Biggest Release Ever, Here's What's New | Linux Today

GIMP 2.10 Officially Released as the Biggest Release Ever, Here’s What’s New

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Marius Nestor
Apr 27, 2018

GIMP aims to be the Photoshop alternative for the masses, and it does a very good job at that. The application is usually used by users of open source operating systems like GNU/Linux and BSD, but it’s also heavily used by Windows users. The latest release, GIMP 2.10, is the biggest yet, bringing so many changes that it would be impossible for us to list them all here. Instead, we’ll have a look at the most prominent ones, which include multi-threaded, high bit depth, and hardware accelerated pixel processing.

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Marius Nestor

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