GIMP 2.10.10 Released

GIMP 2.10.10 Released

 


We haven’t had any updates for a few months but the wait is hopefully worth it! We’ve got many nice new features, optimizations, and stability fixes in this release!
Version 2.10.10 highlights include:

• Line art detection in the Bucket Fill tool for comic artists
• Various usability improvements in transformation tools
• Sample Merged option added to the Heal tool and fixed in the Clone tool
• Parametric brushes now have 32-bit per channel precision
• Easier brush and pattern creation workflow
• On-canvas layer selection
• Faster saving/exporting and layer groups rendering
• Initial DDS support
• Many improvements in GEGL, the image processing engine

Notable improvements

Improved tools

Bucket Fill tool

The Bucket Fill tool got a bit of a revamp making it much easier to use. It also got a new “Fill by line art detection” mode (a.k.a. “Smart Colorization”)!

Quick Color picking

Similarly to painting tools, it is now possible to pick surrounding colors on canvas with the Ctrl modifier, without having to switch to Color Picker tool.

Click and drag to fill

In “Fill similar colors” and “Fill by line art detection” modes, you can now keep the mouse button down to continue filling more areas.

Fill by line art detection

Finally, the highlight change on the Bucket Fill tool is a new algorithm for painters, allowing to fill areas surrounded by “line arts”, while trying to leave no unfilled pixels near the lines, and closing potential zones.
This feature, originated from the G’MIC plug-in as a research paper, was contributed by Jehan as work for the IMAGE team of the GREYC laboratory (French Research Lab, affiliated to the CNRS, the University of Caen, and the engineering school ENSICAEN), with important interface input from Aryeom from ZeMarmot project.