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GIMP 2.10.2 out now

Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,638
edited May 2018 in The Commons

So as a Photoshop 6 user and won't upgrade ever because Adobe went subcription this is a great development for Photo Manipulators. Gimp now handles 32bit images and is free. The windows installer is now available! I downloaded the torrent from Official gimp site and it was fine no viruses. If you can't afford Photoshop or don't like subcription software I would suggest giving the new Gimp a try.

GIMP 2.10, here are some of the most notable changes:

  • Image processing nearly fully ported to GEGL, allowing high bit depth processing, multi-threaded and hardware accelerated pixel processing, and more.
  • Color management is a core feature now, most widgets and preview areas are color-managed.
  • Many improved tools, and several new and exciting tools, such as the Warp transform, the Unified transform and the Handle transform tools.
  • On-canvas preview for all filters ported to GEGL.
  • Improved digital painting with canvas rotation and flipping, symmetry painting, MyPaint brush support…
  • Support for several new image formats added (OpenEXR, RGBE, WebP, HGT), as well as improved support for many existing formats (in particular more robust PSD importing).
  • Metadata viewing and editing for Exif, XMP, IPTC, and DICOM.
  • Basic HiDPI support: automatic or user-selected icon size.
  • New themes for GIMP (Light, Gray, Dark, and System) and new symbolic icons meant to somewhat dim the environment and shift the focus towards content (former theme and color icons are still available in Preferences).
  • And more, better, more, and even more awesome!

Gimp 2.10.2  Therefore, 44 bugs have been fixed in less than a month!

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  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,996
    edited April 2018

    Finally, a better looking UI.  Found the old one confusing.  Looks like they took a note from the team who makes Krita.

    Wonder if the canvase flipping and rotation works the same as it does in Krita

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,843

    Cool. I have photoshop, paintshop pro and GIMP all installed and find I use GIMP more than the others

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,252

    Thanks I was able to do a direct download but AVAST wouldn't let me run the setup program and immediately tossed it into the virus chest. Said it was infected with "Filerepmalware"

  • rayglendenningrayglendenning Posts: 137

    Is there an official portable download?

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,996
    rayglendenning said:

    Is there an official portable download?

    I can only find this - http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16353

     

  • rayglendenningrayglendenning Posts: 137

    Damn, hoped for an official one, I prefer the way Blender installs in Windows, being an old school Unix guy I get annoyed with the polution to your OS directories every application install causes in windows!

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729

    At last!

  • Ghosty12Ghosty12 Posts: 2,080

    Awesome yeah I use the Gimp a lot and even more so now that it has support for photoshop brushes..

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,861

    ...yeah will get tossed by my AV as well coming from a torrent site. Hopefully the official Windows installer is released soon.

  • Ghosty12Ghosty12 Posts: 2,080

    Yeah just tried to run it my self and my AV went nuts, said it was infected with something called FileRep Malware..

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729

    I downloaded it today from the gimp.org site and when trying to run the installer Windows Defender warned me that this new version of Gimp wasn't in Microsoft's 'safe database' so I had to tell Windows 10 to go ahead & install it. I did do a full scan of gimp-2.10.0-x64-setup.exe with Windows Defender and it detected no threats, which wasn't a surprise since both Google Chrome and Windows Defender scans files that are downloaded to my computer and didn't detect any trojan or such, not that they can't be wrong, but it's not a very high chance.

    I like the new Gimp 2.10.0.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,861

    ...that's one of the risks of using torrents.

  • Ghosty12Ghosty12 Posts: 2,080
    kyoto kid said:

    ...that's one of the risks of using torrents.

    No this was from the direct download link, since I don't have torrent dling software installed..

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,861

    ...that is not good.  Is that from the Gimp site itself?

  • Ghosty12Ghosty12 Posts: 2,080
    kyoto kid said:

    ...that is not good.  Is that from the Gimp site itself?

    Yup from the gimp.org site itself, only place that I will download it from.. My thinking is that it is so new that the AV's have not taken it into accound, lucky for me Avast stopped it from installing and well I should listened to what windows said about that I should not run it.. Either way I seem to have dodged a bullet there..

  • rayglendenningrayglendenning Posts: 137
    edited April 2018
    Windows S, which is to become the primary mode in all versions of Windows will only allow installation of app from or authorised by the store!
    Post edited by rayglendenning on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,861
    edited April 2018
    ghosty12 said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...that is not good.  Is that from the Gimp site itself?

    Yup from the gimp.org site itself, only place that I will download it from.. My thinking is that it is so new that the AV's have not taken it into accound, lucky for me Avast stopped it from installing and well I should listened to what windows said about that I should not run it.. Either way I seem to have dodged a bullet there..

    ...someone ought to drop them a note about this. If their site is compromised, they need to attend to that.

    Been a long time since I communicated with site development and I forgot my login (after all the updates of FF over the years it is now somewhaere in the digital æther).

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  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,996

    ok, tried it, they did not change it enough for me to like it again.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,861

    ..as a long time Gimp user I am interested in the changes.  Never could afford PS back then.

  • rayglendenningrayglendenning Posts: 137
    edited April 2018
    kyoto kid said:

    ..as a long time Gimp user I am interested in the changes.  Never could afford PS back then.

    I can afford it but I won't use software I'll be locked out of if I stop paying monthly. I only buy perpetual licences and upgrade as required. Looking for a Lightroom replacement but 5 still does what I need.
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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,312
    edited April 2018

    I have downloaded from https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

    and then scanned the file: gimp-2.10.0-x64-setup.exe

    on https://www.virustotal.com/

    The 4 antivirus engines detected this file to be infected with:

    Avast: FileRepMalware
    AVG: FileRepMalware
    CMC: Trojan.Win32.Nimnul!O
    McAfee-GW-Edition: Artemis

    ... but 57 other antivirus engines does not detected any virus in the file.

     

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  • Ghosty12Ghosty12 Posts: 2,080
    Artini said:

    I have downloaded from https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

    and then scanned the file: gimp-2.10.0-x64-setup.exe

    on https://www.virustotal.com/

    The 4 antivirus engines detected this file to be infected with:

    Avast: FileRepMalware
    AVG: FileRepMalware
    CMC: Trojan.Win32.Nimnul!O
    McAfee-GW-Edition: Artemis

    ... but 57 other antivirus engines does not detected any virus in the file.

     

    Interesting, and well I use Avast why I could not get it to run, and well even Win 10 advised against running it as well.. With the blue box that pops up warning you about it..

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,312

    Scanned with VirusTotal the 64-bit part of the file GimpEval-2.10-Win.7z

    obtained from http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16353 and then from:

    https://samjcreations.blogspot.se/2018/04/version-de-developpement-gimp-210.html

    and none of 41 antivirus engines detected any virus in it.

    Could not scan the whole GimpEval-2.10-Win.7z

    because VirusTotal limits scanned files to 256 MBytes.

     

  • themidgetthemidget Posts: 287
    rayglendenning said:

    Is there an official portable download?

    Might not be an official one yet but if you find anything by either Samj or Partha, they are usually trustworthy and have useful extras.

  • outrider42outrider42 Posts: 3,679
    Its simply because this is new that it is freaking out a couple scanners. That's pretty common. That's the scanners, not GIMP.

    Its about time they address the GUI. I've used GIMP for years, but the last 2.9 physically hurt my eyes and even gave me a headache after looking at it for too long. Whoever let that nasty theme through needs to be slapped upside the head with a fish.
  • davidwski_16294691f0davidwski_16294691f0 Posts: 102

    That information is outdated.  Windows S will be set as an 'operating mode' of Windows 10, but user can disable it in all versions. 

    rayglendenning said:
    Windows S, which is to become the primary mode in all versions of Windows will only allow installation of app from or authorised by the store!
    rayglendenning said:
     

     

  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,666

    I don't think McAffee knows what it's doing. I just downloaded Gimp 2.10 from www.gimp.org with no complaints. Then when I was scrolling down the page to see if the documentaion was available I got a sudden "Whoa, do you want to go there? That's risky" warning from McAffee, but it didn't delete the download. Just to be safe I told McAffee to scan the installer and it said there are no viruses.

    That's the problem with these virus checkers that rely on reputation. I've had cases where I wrote a program myself, compiled it on my desktop, put it on memory stick and the virus checker on my laptop threw up a big warning mesage saying that file was highly dangerous and I should delete it at once!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,861
    edited April 2018
    rayglendenning said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..as a long time Gimp user I am interested in the changes.  Never could afford PS back then.

     

    I can afford it but I won't use software I'll be locked out of if I stop paying monthly. I only buy perpetual licences and upgrade as required. Looking for a Lightroom replacement but 5 still does what I need.

    ...for myself, 700$ was too rich for what would be a "postwork" programme (and Gimp handled that fine for my needs) as I don't do digital photography nor work in a professional capacity. 

    I'm with you on subscription software, however the forthcoming Octane4 is tempting.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,861
    ghosty12 said:
    Artini said:

    I have downloaded from https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

    and then scanned the file: gimp-2.10.0-x64-setup.exe

    on https://www.virustotal.com/

    The 4 antivirus engines detected this file to be infected with:

    Avast: FileRepMalware
    AVG: FileRepMalware
    CMC: Trojan.Win32.Nimnul!O
    McAfee-GW-Edition: Artemis

    ... but 57 other antivirus engines does not detected any virus in the file.

     

    Interesting, and well I use Avast why I could not get it to run, and well even Win 10 advised against running it as well.. With the blue box that pops up warning you about it..

    ...I'm running W7 with updating disabled (ever since MS went with the bundled "rollup" format back in 2016) so just a bit on the cautious side here.

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621

    Anyone know if it can convert exr to hdr?

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