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Run GIMP 2.6.1 image editor from a flash drive

Windowsby Brad Linder Oct 13th 2008

GIMP 2.6.1 portable
Just about a week after open source image editor GIMP 2.6.1 was released, a portable version is available. What makes GIMP 2.6.1 Portable different from the original application is that you don't have to install the portable edition on a computer to run it. You just download the application, run it once to unzip it to a directory of your choice, and then you can run it from that folder. In other words, you can unzip it to a USB flash drive and plug that drive into any computer you want to use GIMP on.

GIMP Portable is part of the Portable Apps suite which also includes portable versions of Firefox and OpenOffice.org. The portable applications are Windows only, although most of the applications are open source and capable of running on Windows, Linux, and in some cases, OS X. You just need to install them the old fashioned way on Linux and Mac systems.

Tags: gimp, gimp-2.6, gimp-portable, portable-apps

Filed under: Design, Linux, Open Source

GIMP 2.6 open source image editor launched

Linuxby Brad Linder Oct 1st 2008

GIMP 2.6
The developers behind open source the image editing application GIMP have released a major update. GIMP 2.6 includes a number of changes to the user interface and tools and plugins. There are a also a few important changes under the hood.

One of the most noticable changes is that the main menu items have been moved from the toolbox window to the image window so that you can access most options in one place. Another major change is the ability to pan beyond the border of an image. The free select tool has been tweaked so that it now supports polygonal selections, and there are new brush dynamic options that let you tweak the size, opacity, pressure, and velocity of brush strokes. GIMP 2.6 also uses GEGL for processing most color operations.

You can find a complete list of changes in the release notes.

GIMP 2.6 is available for download via FTP. It's not yet available in the Ubuntu repositories, and there's no Windows installer yet, so you might want to wait a while before installing GIMP 2.6 unless you're comfortable compiling applications from source.

[via Slashdot]

Update: The Windows version is now available for download.

Tags: gimp, gimp-2.6, image-editing

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