The “Break it Down” Blog

Chris Hunkele sent this in yesterday, it looks like everyone’s favorite Photoshop clone, GIMP, finally released it’s 2.4 version after years of development from the 2.2 stream.

This is a pretty huge release as the team has been working on some major rewritten aspects to GIMP for a long time, and now they have finally made it out the door after a length beta cycle of tweaks and bug fixes.

Here you can see the new Foreground selection tool in action:

In addition to all the basic improvements and changes to photo editing tools (like zooming, levels, cropping, aligning, etc.), there were a lot of improvements to tools used specifically for digital photography, like Color management:

We also got Red eye reduction, lens distortion effects, and Perspective cloning:

Overall a huge release. If you are interested in graphic work and don’t want to cough up for Photoshop, GIMP is an interesting program to try out.