The Gimp 2.3.8 Beta

它具備多種功能，可作為簡單的繪圖程式、專業級照片修圖軟體、線上批次處理系統、量產影像渲染器、影像格式轉換器等使用。

• 完整的繪圖工具組，包括畫筆、鉛筆、噴槍、仿製等。
• 以區塊為基礎的記憶體管理，因此影像大小僅受限於可用磁碟空間。
• 所有繪圖工具皆支援子像素取樣，提供高品質的抗鋸齒效果。
• 完整的 Alpha 色頻支援。
• 圖層與色頻。
• 程序化資料庫，可從外部程式（如 Script-Fu）呼叫 GIMP 內部功能。
• 進階腳本撰寫能力。
• 多重復原/重做（僅受限於磁碟空間）。
• 變形工具，包括旋轉、縮放、傾斜與翻轉。
• 支援的檔案格式包括 GIF、JPEG、PNG、XPM、TIFF、TGA、MPEG、PS、PDF、PCX、BMP 及其他多種格式。
• 選取工具，包括矩形、橢圓、自由、模糊、貝茲曲線與智慧型選取。
• 外掛程式，可輕鬆新增新的檔案格式與新的效果濾鏡。

Changes in GIMP 2.3.8
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- added new tile primitive Triangle to Mosaic plug-in
- speed up Gaussian Blur plug-in
- suppress redundant progress updates from plug-ins
- changed some gimprc and sessionrc default values (window hints,
fullscreen mode)
- do not focus transform tool dialogs on map
- renamed Magnify tool to Zoom tool and added some missing tool shortcuts
- added a submenu with recently used plug-ins to the Filters menu
- fixed look-up table used for Contrast adjustments
- improved the user interface of the Animation Playback plug-in
- added framework for describing menu entries in the statusbar
- added lots of helpful blurbs to procedures and core actions
- remove color from the Watercolor selector if Shift is being pressed
- ported PDB internals to GParamSpec and GValue
- speedup and UI improvements for the SIOX tool
- added parasite getters and settors for vectors
- made PSD load and save plug-ins 64bit clean
- some string review
- ported ellipse select tool to the new rectangle tool
- added basic support for layer masks to the PSD save plug-in
- avoid relocations by declaring more data as const
- new application icons in more sizes and as a SVG
- provide script-specific samples instead of hard-coding "Aa" for font preview
- build the Screenshot plug-in on all platforms
- allow to discard invisible layers when merging visible layers
- nicer output from gimp-procedural-db-dump
- bug fixes and code cleanup