Articles by Alexandre Prokoudine

What we did in 2013

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 …


GIMP 2.8.10 released

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 …


Google Summer of Code 2013 Results

GSoC2013 program is over now, and 3 out of 4 students successfully completed it.

Carlos Zubieta ported 13 GEGL operations to use GPU via OpenCL, and the gegl-random module used by noise generation operations, then made noise-hsv and noise-cie-lch operations use it. You can read his report.

Simon Lui ported …


Sponsoring symmetric painting mode

Jehan Pagès, one of our active contributors, started a personal crowdfunding campaign to sponsor his work on symmetric painting in GIMP. You can find more information in his blog, and there’s a video of a proof-of-concept implementation on YouTube. If you care about GIMP as a tool for digital …


GIMP Magazine #4 published

The fourth issue of GIMP Magazine is now out and available as a digital download, a printed copy, and an e-zine for iPad. In just a year the project got a huge following, and now it’d a 100 pages large magazine with interviews, tutorials, a gallery section, and a …


GIMP 2.8.6 Released

We just released GIMP 2.8.6! This is a release in the stable GIMP 2.8 series, featuring lots of bug fixes and translation updates. For the complete list of changes please see the NEWS file.


Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013 Program

Four students will be working on GIMP and GEGL this summer thanks to Google Summer of Code 2013 program.


Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013 Program

GIMP will be taking part in this year’s Google Summer of Code program as a mentoring organization. We are inviting interested students to get in touch with us and start discussing potential projects.

Some project ideas have already been posted in the wiki, but you are free to come …


Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013 Program

Yesterday Google announced Summer of Code 2013 program. Participating at GSoC has proved to be rather beneficial to us. Here are just some of the features implemented during past runs of the program: five new tools (Heal, Perspective Clone, Cage Transform, Warp Transform, Seamless Paste), resources tagging, hardware acceleration in …


GIMP 2.8.4 for OSX Available

GIMP 2.8.4 is now available as disk image for Mac OSX.

Please note that with this release, we have moved GIMP’s per-user data from “~/Library” to “~/Library/Application Support”. If you had installed GIMP 2.8.2 before, please open a terminal and enter the following command …


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