GIMP 2.4: First major update in three years

If you've been thinking it's been a while since GIMP 2.2 was released, you're right. It's been three years since the GIMP team has pushed out a major update to the open source Photoshop alternative. This week, GIMP 2.4 was released, with a new icon set, and a whole slew of other features:

• Redesigned crop, selection, and align tools
• Scalable bitmap brushes
• Reorganized menu layout
• Improved display when zooming in or out
  
• Support for more file formats
• Full support for color profiles
• Improved printing
  
• Auto red eye removal tool

There are a ton of other new features and updates. You can read about them in the release notes.

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Tags: gimp, gimp-2.4, image-editing, opensource, the-gimp