The newly released issue #6 of GIMP Magazine features a “Using GIMP for portrait and fashion photography” master class by Aaron Tyree who uses GIMP professionally, and a gallery of other artworks and photos made or processed with GIMP.
The team is planning to switch to monthly releases, however they need your support to cover the costs of publishing a free magazine. You can sponsor the project at Patreon or visit the magazine’s gift shop to make a donation.
We have released an updated 2.8.14 installer (http) for Microsoft Windows. This one fixes the crash on window resize and the missing icons bugs – all by updating the included GTK+ library to 2.24.24.
Still unsolved are the missing spacing character in the zoom drop down and the disappearing background on high zooms (updating the Pango and Cairo libraries that are didn’t change anything there), investigations continue.
Please continue to report bugs, we can’t fix what we don’t know about.
Yesterday’s 2.8.12 release had broken library versioning, so we had to roll out GIMP 2.8.14 today.
The only change is the fixed libtool versioning.
Please do not distribute any binaries of yesterday’s broken 2.8.12 release, and get GIMP 2.8.14 using the torrent: http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/gimp-2.8.14.tar.bz2.torrent
A new version of the user manual has been released. Changes include:
You can click here to download the 2.8.2 release package. This release provides only the sources to build the help used by the GIMP Help browser. Find the packages on our download server.
For easy installation we suggest that you wait until an installer for this release has been packaged for your platform. Find more releases and information about our goals and how you can help at http://docs.gimp.org.
It’s been possible to use various scripting languages to automate GIMP for a long time. But until recently Perl bindings for GIMP were considerably out of date due to lack of interest from contributors. Fortunately, a while ago Ed J started working on updating those, and now a release candidate is available for testing.
Gimp-Perl version 2.30_05 is on CPAN now. It supports GIMP 2.8 and provides the following features:
examples/autosave2) will save in its own directory files that were opened and changed, then reopen them on GIMP startup; if installed, will start along with GIMP.Filters/Browse Plug-in Registry.Filters/Perl/Console.The way to install the release candidate on Linux is:
perl -MCPAN -e "install 'ETJ/Gimp-2.30_05.tar.gz'"
If you encounter any bugs, please report them on bugzilla.gnome.org.
Heads-up if you are still accessing the downloads via ftp.gimp.org:
The downloads server has been renamed to download.gimp.org, and it doesn’t support FTP anymore. If you have linked any file, installer package, source archive or directory with an ftp://-Link, please change it to http://. The directory structure is unchanged.
The Libre Graphics Meeting is a conference where artists, users, developers, designers, contributors,… who use, plan, develop, play with, tamper with free, libre and open source graphics applications, libraries, concepts,…
It is an unparalleled opportunity for them to meet, talk, discuss, listen, experience and learn about their favorite tools, the uses, the undiscovered potential, the new ideas that come with them
This year, Libre Graphics Meeting will happen at the University of Leipzig, April 2-5.
The attendees arrive from all over the world—last year, people from 26 countries traveled to Madrid to attend. Maybe there will be even more this year?
You can help to make this happen—and many of you already did.
We, the GIMP team, are covering the travel and accommodation expenses for our own team members, and we contribute to the global LGM funds as well. These funds are used to reimburse the travel expenses of contributors and speakers.
Our contribution is possible due to your donations—many, many thanks for this, the return on investment from such meetings for the projects is invaluable.
But, the LGM organizers, they ask for modest contributions, always keen not to drain the funds of the projects that attend the meeting. We’ve got our planned expenses covered for this LGM, so we’ll ask you to force them to take more! 🙂
LGM runs a travel fund pledgie campaign with an ambitious goal: $12,000. Please go there and contribute to make this awesome meeting possible.
Before you leave for the holidays, we thought you’d like an overview of what we did this year to improve GIMP for you.
Most of the time was spent on improving the GEGL-based version of GIMP (to be released as v2.10) and porting GIMP plugins to GEGL, so that you could benefit from 32bit float precision per color channel as much as possible.
We also successfully participated in Google Summer of Code 2013 and merged more code from GSoC2012 into the main development branch, namely Seamless Clone and Warp Transform tools.
You can find out a lot more in this detailed report. We wish you to have a great time with your family and friends!
New Industry Group Hopes Open Source Framework Can Propel the Internet of Things – IEEE Spectrum.
By Katherine Tweed. Posted
The days of sitting in your driveway to listen to the end of your favorite song or compelling news broadcast may be over soon. Ditto on worrying about where you put your house keys.
A newly formed industry consortium, the AllSeen Alliance, wants to advance the adoption of the “Internet of things” through an open source framework. The Internet of things is based on the idea that devices and objects can connect to each other for seamless sharing of information and coordinated operations.
In such a connected world, you could turn the car off, open your front door and have the same song or radio show playing in your home. Additionally, when you drive up to your house, the doors could unlock automatically.
The AllSeen Alliance involves leaders in home appliances and computing, including the Linux Foundation, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sharp, Cisco, D-Link and others. The software framework comes from a project originally developed by Qualcomm called AllJoyn, which allows products to communicate over Wi-Fi, power line networks, or Ethernet. The alliance members plan to expand the standard and take input from the open source community.
The first applications will likely be in home security, entertainment, and connectivity. A smartphone’s geolocation could let a home security and lights system know when a homeowner is approaching the house and turn on lights and unlock doors. If someone tried to break into a home, it could trigger lights to flash and a camera to snap pictures of the intruder.
“We envision that users will be able to add the benefits of ‘the Internet of Things near me’ to the cloud-based services they already enjoy,” said Rob Chandhok, president of Qualcomm Connected Experiences, in a statement. If it is successful, eventually your household electronics could talk to each other no matter who the manufacturer is.
The Internet of things, and particularly a connected home, has seemingly been just around around the corner since the time of the Jetsons, but has never quite materialized. But there are finally some signs (beyond the hype of the Consumer Electronics Show) of the idea actually entering the mainstream market. Some cable companies and security companies, such as Comcast’s Xfinity Home and Alarm.com, are already offering basic versions of these services, with lights, security and heating and cooling functions that can be controlled from a smartphone.
The AllSeen Alliance is not the only group trying to move the market forward. The Internet of Things (IoT) Consortium also has an aim of “cooperation between hardware, software, and service providers.” But the AllSeen Alliance has a leg up on the consortium and other efforts in terms of the scope and pedigree of its members. The IoT has some household names, such as LogiTech, but not nearly as many as the AllSeen Alliance, which claims many popular brands such as LG, Panasonic, Cisco and Sharp.
Even if one group can build a standard that most companies are eager to build to, all players will not necessarily be onboard, especially if individual companies build ecosystems before a standard emerges. Nest Labs, which has a popular thermostat recently launched its own developer program that will go live in 2014 for companies or individuals that want to build apps or connectivity with its network.
But Jim Zemlin, executive director of Linux Foundation, told PCWorld that the code is already implemented in some products sold today and more announcements would be coming at Consumer Electronics Show in January.
The open source framework could also be used for commercial applications, the alliance said in a statement. On factory floors, for instance, a self-aware network could learn the capabilities of new equipment and adjust the manufacturing process automatically.
The software will be able to run on various platforms such as Linux, Linux-based Android, iOS, Windows and various embedded variants. The initial codebase is available to developers at www.allseenalliance.org.
We just released GIMP 2.8.10 ! This is a release in the stable GIMP 2.8 series. This release fixes a bug that prevented older GIMP versions from running on OS X Mavericks. We also did some small adjustments to the Save/Export code in order to make things a bit easier. For the complete list of changes please see the NEWS file.