GIMP 2.6.0 Released

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Minor Changes

Added a bounding box for the Text Tool that supports automatic wrapping of text within that bounding box.
Move handles for rectangle based tools like Crop and Rectangle Select to the outside of the rectangle when the rectangle is narrow.
Added motion constraints to the Move Tool.
Improved event smoothing for paint tools.
Mark the center of rectangles while they are moved, and snap the center to grid and rulers.
Enable brush scaling for the Smudge tool.
Added ability to save presets in all color tools for color adjustments you use frequently.
Allow to transfer settings from Brightness-Contrast to Levels, and from Levels to Curves.
Allow changing opacity on transform tool previews.
The Screenshot plug-in has been given the ability to capture the mouse cursor (using Xfixes).
Display aspect ratio of the Crop and Rectangle Select Tool rectangles in the status bar.
Desaturate has been given an on-canvas preview.
The Flame plug-in has been extended with 22 new variations.
Data file folders like brush folders are searched recursively for files.
Replaced the PSD import plug-in with a rewritten version that does what the old version did plus some other things, for example reading of ICC color profiles.