Features and Capabilities:
Painting
- Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
- Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
- Supports custom brushes and patterns
System
- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
Advanced Manipulation
- Full alpha channel support
- Layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
- Editable text layers
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
- Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
- Transformable paths, transformable selections.
- Quickmask to paint a selection and more...
Changes in GIMP 2.4.4
- fixed typo in stock icon name
- fixed handling of PSD files with empty layer names
- merged TinyScheme bug-fixes
- removed duplicate entry from Tango palette
- corrected parameter range in Chip Away script
- reduced redraw priority and speed of the marching ants
- fixed out-of-bounds array access in Convolution Matrix plug-in
- reduced rounding errors in Convolution Matrix plug-in
- fixed potential crash on missing CMYK color profile
- fixed crash in Bumpmap plug-in when called from some scripts
- Equalize should not equalise the alpha channel
- increased the number of points the ImageMap plug-in can handle
- adjusted the priority of the projection renderer
- smooth the brush mask to get a simpler cursor boundary
- show the selection even if the image window is invisible
- allow to commit a pending rectangular selection using Enter
- fixed bug in image dirty state logic
- improved GIMPressionist preformance and reduced startup time
- fixed a crash in the Convert to Color Profile plug-in
- merged some other minor fixes from trunk
- translation updates (de, it, lt, ru, sv, uk)
Download: Gimp 2.4.4