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GIMP 3.2 Open-Source Image Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Highlights of GIMP 3.2 include a new paint blend mode called Overwrite that lets you directly replace the pixels over the area you paint, a new setting in the text tool to control the direction of the text outline, and automatic match of Linux and Windows OS themes.
Also new in GIMP 3.2 is support for using ART (AnotherRawTherapee) as a Camera Raw loader, a new option to export to Krita‘s .kpl palette format, support for importing Photoshop patterns, and support for using presets from Photoshop’s Curves and Levels filters in GIMP’s Curves and Levels filters.
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GIMP 3.2 Released! Link & Vector Layers, SVG Export [Ubuntu PPA] | UbuntuHandbook
GIMP, the popular free open-source image editor, release new major 3.2 version after a year of development!
The new version of this GTK3 software added many exciting new feature, new file formats support, and UI/UX improments.
First, GIMP 3.2 introduced a new link layer feature. When you have an image opened as link layer (File -> Open as Link Layer... or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+O), you can edit that image via other apps (e.g., Krita, Inkscape) at the same time, and see it instantly updated inside GIMP!
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GIMP 3.2 Released
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GIMP 3.2 released with Link Layers, SVG export + more - OMG! Ubuntu
A year in the making, GIMP 3.2 brings a raft of long-awaited features that users of the famed open-source image editing tool will appreciate like non-destructive Link Layers, quick creation of Vector Layers from paths, and a better dynamic painting experience.
“We’re happy to present the first release of GIMP 3.2,” the team says of the release, which has been a year in the making and is part of a new ‘streamlined’ release process: GIMP 3.2 is out a year after GIMP 3.0.
That may sound a long time, but GIMP 3.0 arrived 7 years after GIMP 2.10, a release that itself came after a gap of 6 years from GIMP 2.8 (many open-source projects use an ‘even number = stable release’ versioning scheme, hence no 2.9, 3.1, etc).
you’ll be familiar with the new features in GIMP 3.2 if you’ve kept tabs on the many GIMP development builds in the previous 12 months. If you haven’t, then there’s a fair bit to chew over.
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GIMP 3.2 released
After a year's worth of development since GIMP 3.0 was released, the team behind the open-source image editor has released GIMP 3.2. It comes as part of the plan to release GIMP more frequently, rather than wait six or seven years between releases.