Download The GIMP 2.4.0 RC3

Today the third release candidate of version 2.4.0 of The GIMP has been released. The GIMP, short for ‘the GNU Image Manipulation Program’, is an image editing program for FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris, among others. It is considered by many to be the open source counterpart of Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, but opening many screens does take some getting used to. There is also a Windows version, the latest version is 2.2.17. In this release, almost all reported bugs have been fixed. For the sake of completeness, we give all changes since the previous entry in the Meuktracker:

Changes in GIMP 2.4.0-rc3

• use the new format for storing recently used files
• added conversion options to the color profile conversion plugin
• allow to disable the toolbox menu on all platforms
• further improved handling of the JPEG settings
• switch tabs when hovering over them
• added a PDB function to remove the alpha channel from a layer
• plugin previews remember the state of the Preview checkbox (bug #478657)
• allow to grow the image/layer using the Crop tool
• bug fixes

Changes in GIMP 2.4.0-rc2

• more improvements and bug fixes in the rectangle tools
• antialias the display for zoom levels between 100% and 200%
• fix zoomed-out display problems
• improve handling of JPEG settings
• fix script-fu error reporting
• on OS X, get rid of menubars in windows and use the global menubar
• fix plugins using GimpZoomPreview
• throw properly catchable exceptions from foreign script-fu function (like PDB wrappers)
• bug fixes

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