The Gimp 2.6.3

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

• Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
• Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
• Full Alpha channel support
• Layers and channels
• A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
• Advanced scripting capabilities
• Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
• File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
• Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
• Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

* Bugs fixed:

558454 – Plugin Map Color Range disappears from GIMP
559239 – Error while loading psd-data
560903 – Explicit zooming with e.g. '1' should handle
zoom-focus better
560245 – Zoom selection always centered in the Navigation tab
559490 – Wrong lang tags for 'no'
559292 – SOTA Chrome cannot accept different textures
560375 – Clearing an already empty document history crashes GIMP
559580 – Image windows need better default locations
560283 – "Scale image..." causes distortion around edges
559716 – Changing crop size in Crop Tool Options can make UI
unresponsive
558549 – Stroking a single-point path with a paint tool
crashes GIMP
559015 – Move tool gives bad information about px moved
558660 – help behavior for locales without manual translation

* Updated translations:

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