Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

2017-12-17 Thread Tom Williams 
On 12/15/2017 06:09 PM, Øyvind Kolås wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Tom Williams  wrote:
>>>   - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and
>>> drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded
>>> implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy".
>> I do have a question about OpenCL support.  If it's disabled by default,
>> how does one enable it?
> There is a check-box in preferences under the 'System Resources'
> category, where the number of threads used can also be overriden.
>
> /pippin - https://pippin.gimp.org/
>
Great!  Thanks!

Peace...

Tom

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Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

2017-12-15 Thread Øyvind Kolås 
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Tom Williams  wrote:
>>   - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and
>> drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded
>> implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy".
> I do have a question about OpenCL support.  If it's disabled by default,
> how does one enable it?

There is a check-box in preferences under the 'System Resources'
category, where the number of threads used can also be overriden.

/pippin - https://pippin.gimp.org/
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Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

2017-12-12 Thread Tom Williams 
On 12/12/2017 02:41 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> finally, a new development snapshot!
>
> We just released the fourth development snapshot in the
> GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.
>
> This is an unstable development preview and might crash
> or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your
> images more often.
>
> For a complete list of changes since 2.9.6 please see the
> "Changes" section below.
>
> There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org
> with screenshots and some videos:
>
> https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/
>
> Happy GIMPing,
> --Mitch

Wow!!! I'm impressed with all the work that's been going on!  I'm
totally looking forward to GIMP 2.10! :)
>
>
> Download
> 
>
>   GIMP 2.9.8 is available from:
>
>   https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/
>
>   and from the mirrors listed at:
>
>   https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors
>
>   The checksum of the tarball is:
>
>   bade4163fb5b7a2063e1db570f27242f  gimp-2.9.8.tar.bz2
>
>
> Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.6 to GIMP 2.9.8
> =
>
> Core:
>
>   - The default brush is now "Hardness 050".
>   - Verbose version (command line: gimp -v) now displays C compiler
> information.
>   - Transform tools don't commit identity transformation anymore.
>   - Manual language can now be selected amongst all installed manuals,
> which is particularly interesting when no GIMP manuals are 
> available in your GUI language. This will be proposed by default
> when a manual is not installed for the GUI language (alongside the
> possibility to read online) and the choice can be edited in
> preferences.
>   - The statusbar now blinks on warnings and errors.
>   - Paste in Place, available for regular clipboard and named buffers,
> allows pasting contents of either the clipboard a named buffer at
> the exact coordinates it was copied from.
>   - Color Picker should now work on KDE/Wayland.
>   - Color Picker now reads values under cursor in local windows making
> it work at least inside GIMP Windows on Wayland platforms with no
> color-picking capabilities (for instance GNOME/Wayland) yet.
>   - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and
> drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded
> implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy".
>   - Now possible to open a locally-installed manual different from the
> GUI localization. The manual language choice can be customized
> through preferences when several manuals are installed. If no
> manual language has been selected already and no manual for   
> current GUI localization is available, choice of help language
> will be proposed at first call to the manual.
I do have a question about OpenCL support.  If it's disabled by default,
how does one enable it?

Peace...

Tom

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[Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

2017-12-12 Thread Michael Natterer 
Hi,

finally, a new development snapshot!

We just released the fourth development snapshot in the
GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

This is an unstable development preview and might crash
or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your
images more often.

For a complete list of changes since 2.9.6 please see the
"Changes" section below.

There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org
with screenshots and some videos:

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/

Happy GIMPing,
--Mitch


Download


  GIMP 2.9.8 is available from:

  https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/

  and from the mirrors listed at:

  https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors

  The checksum of the tarball is:

  bade4163fb5b7a2063e1db570f27242f  gimp-2.9.8.tar.bz2


Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.6 to GIMP 2.9.8
=

Core:

  - The default brush is now "Hardness 050".
  - Verbose version (command line: gimp -v) now displays C compiler
information.
  - Transform tools don't commit identity transformation anymore.
  - Manual language can now be selected amongst all installed manuals,
which is particularly interesting when no GIMP manuals are 
available in your GUI language. This will be proposed by default
when a manual is not installed for the GUI language (alongside the
possibility to read online) and the choice can be edited in
preferences.
  - The statusbar now blinks on warnings and errors.
  - Paste in Place, available for regular clipboard and named buffers,
allows pasting contents of either the clipboard a named buffer at
the exact coordinates it was copied from.
  - Color Picker should now work on KDE/Wayland.
  - Color Picker now reads values under cursor in local windows making
it work at least inside GIMP Windows on Wayland platforms with no
color-picking capabilities (for instance GNOME/Wayland) yet.
  - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and
drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded
implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy".
  - Now possible to open a locally-installed manual different from the
GUI localization. The manual language choice can be customized
through preferences when several manuals are installed. If no
manual language has been selected already and no manual for   
current GUI localization is available, choice of help language
will be proposed at first call to the manual.

Configurability:

  - Keybindings now possible for previous/next/top/bottom channel.

Usability:

  - The spinscale widget now highlights vertical parts of the slider
section differently to hint that position of cursor above the
widget matters. When changing values in the lower step section,
the pointer will be wrapped around the screen so that you could
continue adjusting the value without interruptions.
  - Canvas rotation and flip information is now visible in the status
bar (as angle value and flip icon). Clicking on these canvas status
will respectively raise the "Select Rotation Angle" dialog or
unflip the canvas.
  - Use abbreviated versions for long layer mode names. In particular,
replace the "(legacy)" suffixes with "(l)" in the abbreviated
versions, still showing the unabbreviated names in the full list.

Tools:

  - Blend tool now features on-canvas gradient editing: adding,
shifting, removing color stops, shifting midpoints and converting
them to color stops, assignging colors to color stops, changing
blending type for midpoints. Additional options: 'Instant mode'
(active before you start blending) to support the old workflow
where you can't edit color stops before applying the gradient
fill, and 'Modify active gradient' which allows changing user-
writable gradients directly rather than creating copies of them.
Moreover, custom gradient is now saved and restored across
sessions.
  - All transform tools: it makes no difference now whether a modifier
is pressed before of after mouse button press/release.
  - Free Select tool selection can now be committed with double click
as well (only through Enter key before). This allows smoother
workflows on some setups, and in particular when no keyboard is
available (e.g. tablet-like computers).
  - Layer group children now inherit the color tags of the parent by
default, unless specific color tags are assigned. Inherited color
tags show in a less saturated color than assigned ones.

Painting:

  - When copying a generated brush, GIMP now copies its 'Spacing'
property.
  - Rename "Wheel" dynamics labels as "Wheel/Rotation". It turns out
that Wacom Art Pen and Airbrush pen use the same axis for barrel
rotation and wheel scrolling respectively. Therefore they already
work in GIMP. "Unhide" the feature with more obvious labels.

Color management:

  -