gimp

GIMP Magazine is an interesting magazine designed in mind with promoting GIMP and related work, magazine aimed at GIMP users, photographers, digital artists, Web designers, etc, essentially, incorporating topics covering multiple knowledge-levels.

GIMP Magazine Issue 3 has been released, taking the full-of-information magazine towards a professional zone.

Edit, enhance, adjust, tweak, modify images are actions easily performed via GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), bundle of features gathered, categorized and properly presented into a clear, clean and intuitive interface.

GIMP 2.8.4 has just been released, version presenting itself as a bug-fixes release.

Youtube, websites, forums, blogs, cinemas present rich-content movies, animations, ads, shows, etc, basically, filled-with-graphical-and-audio-details visual stories.

It seems that, throughout the world, there are misconceptions bearing a long life, as in the case of false statements perceived as truthful for tens, hundreds, thousands of years.

It is a fact, isn't it, that creativity is a quality of human beings, inner attribute generating marvelous cathedrals, architectural wonders, colossal bridges, stunning symphonies, etc.

While using Ubuntu, one's creativity can be fully expressed utilizing numerous available tools and utilities, such as GIMP and Inkscape.

GIMP Magazine is a newly launched GIMP-focused publication, featuring a wide range of topics and subjects of interest.

GIMP Magazine presents the reader digital art, photography, tips and tricks, whys, whos, wheres, etc, creative "energy" shaped around a global passionate community of GIMP lovers.

From its very beginning, the GIMP Magazine expresses its to-be-followed goals, such as promoting GIMP and related open-source software, basically, putting in its very center art and photography created with and expressed through GIMP (and related plugins).

WebP is a relatively new image format embracing a both lossy and lossless compression approach, file format developed by Google similarly to video format WebM.

Among its qualities, a presumable (according to various developers across the internets) smaller size for images bearing the same (or almost the same) quality, consequently, being created, designed and launched as a competitor for the JPEG image file format.

Ubuntu is definitely a full-fledged operating system that can successfully handle not only "common" daily tasks (reading an email, browsing the web, watching a movie, etc) but also complex "workflows", such as dealing, maneuvering and editing media-oriented actions, where creativity can be unleashed and corroborated with powerful applications, apps "situated" usually 1-click away in the warmth and "coolness" of Ubuntu Software Center.

How can we express our creativity, passion, feeling, demands, requirements, intentions via software usable in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

GIMP is an important application in the "open" world, app that has a slow development cycle in terms of major releases, approach that can sometimes trigger missing up-to-date packages in various Ubuntu releases, like for instance, Ubuntu 12.04, even though it is an LTS, doesn't contain GIMP 2.8 in its default repos.

Weeks ago, GIMP 2.8 final was released but, due to Precise's LTS nature, has not landed in Ubuntu 12.04's official repos.

GIMP 2.8 has finally been released, as a "result of three years of hard work and collaborative development", bringing a solid amount of new features and impressive refactoring, improvements and enhancements.

What is new in GIMP 2.8?

The GIMP is a full-fledged versatile image manipulation tool with support for various customizations, that can bring a plus in its overall look and feel.

DPixel is a monochrome icon pack designed for GIMP 2.6's toolbox (size 22px), that comes in two flavors, light and dark, suitable for various GTK+ themes (the light icons usable in dark GTK+ themes, etc).