![]() ![]() This simply means that after all these years color management is now available to everyone on Linux. G-C-M that was first released in late 2009 made its way to mainstream distributions during 2010 after becoming official part of GNOME. The team is currently working towards fixing various issues and tying up loose ends. the text tool finally works right on canvas and has inline formatting controls.brush dynamics got major improvements and for the first time ever surpasses Adobe Photoshop in terms of flexibility.most of GIMP’s rendering, including tools, has been ported to Cairo.optional single-window mode became available in v2.7.1 (actual work was done in 2009).Nevertheless a lot of work has been done during this year: This has a lot to do with two principal developers having very little time for development, but also with considerable lack of new committed contributors. The upcoming v2.8 has been under development for a little over two years already, and this year just one development version was released. ![]() The release candidate of this version was released yesterday with final version due to be out in a matter of days.įor GIMP it’s been a rather difficult year. Now thanks to a new patent-free control points detector installing and getting Hugin to work is considerably less of a hassle. Until just now users had to install a separate package with a control points detector, because the original algorithm was patented in the USA. However the most important change this year is a built-in control points detector that is a result of several Google Summer of Code projects in a row. Many important changes have been introduced to this popular free panorama stitching tool this year: HDR deghosting, visualization of connections between images in the project (Layout mode), mosaics mode, linked bracketing etc. Since v0.4 the application has become considerably more polished and powerful, and most recent changes in development version (to be released as v0.8) are bringing dramatic performance improvements as well as important new features. With basic catalog management features, advanced editing tools and, above all, HDR precision darktable is rapidly becoming important part of Linux powered photographers’s workflow. The v0.4 released in January 2010 was the first version when darktable, a digital photography workflow tool for Linux, became actually usable for daily use. We carefully selected most important things that happened or haven’t happened. ![]() With holiday season right in front of us it’s about time to draw a line between 20 and have a look at what was happening to the multimedia production stack of free apps this year. ![]()
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