News: The new release of GIMP 2.10 .

This new release come with this news: GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.

This release include features that users have been asking the team all along:

• New Unified Transform (rotating, scaling, perspective etc. in one go), Handle Transform, and Warp Transform (think Photoshop's Liquify) tools;
• Processing with 16/32-bit per color channel precision, integer or float;
• Gradient tool now allows on-canvas editing;
• Digital painting improved with threaded painting, canvas rotation and flipping, new MyPaint Brush tool, symmetry painting;
• Performance improvements for some filters thanks to multi-threading;
• Improved support for TIFF, PNG, PSD, PDF, FITS;
• Pre-processing of raw digital photos with darktable or RawTherapee at your preferences (more processors can be plugged);
• Over 80 GEGL-based filters with on-canvas preview, including custom split before/after preview.
• Exif, XMP, IPTC, DICOM metadata viewing and editing;
• Newly added support for WebP, OpenEXR, RGBE, HGT;
• Optional linear RGB workflow;
• 15 new blending modes, including Pass-Through;
• Color management rewritten and now a core feature, all color widgets are now color managed, ICC v3 profiles supported;
• CIE LCH and CIE LAB color models now used in a few tools;

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