GIMP 2.8.18

GIMP

GIMP is a digital photo manipulation tool for Windows (and many other platforms) that’s considered to be the open source (free) answer to Adobe Photoshop. Like Photoshop, GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, image construction, and has many other 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, and so much more.

GIMP is amazingly 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.

One of GIMP's strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. So, if you don’t want to pay the price for Photoshop, GIMP is definitely the app for you!

GIMP features:

Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, and more – including the support of custom brushes & patterns
Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, flip, and more
Supports a variety of selection tools such as rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, and more
Supports many file formats – including bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and more
Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections
Supports a virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
Load, display, convert, and save to many different file formats

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.16 to GIMP 2.8.18:

Core

Initialize fontconfig cache in separate thread to keep GUI responsive on first startup
Properly recognize layer masks as deactivated, e.g. for moving layers
Create $XDG_DATA_HOME if it doesn't exist
(CVE-2016-4994) Multiple Use-After-Free when parsing XCF channel and layer properties
Fix progress access to prevent crash on rapid sequence of commands
Fix crash in gimp-gradient-segment-range-move

GUI

Disable color picker buttons on OS X to prevent a GUI lockup
Disable "new-style" full-screen mode on OS X to prevent a crash
Pulsing progress bar in splash screen to indicate unknown durations
Fix gamut warning color for lcms display filter
Fix unbolding of bold font on edit
Prevent accidental renaming of wrong adjacent item

Installer

Change compression settings to decrease size by 20%
Add Catalan, Danish, French, Dutch

Plug-ins

Fix crash on sRGB JPEG image drag & drop
Fix ambiguous octal-escaped output of c-source
Fix KISS CEL export
Fix progress bar for file-compressor
Make Script-Fu regex match return proper character indexes for Unicode characters
Fix Script-Fu modulo for large numbers

General