The Gimp 2.6.5

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:

571628 – Scaling image to 25% turn background from white to grey
567840 – GIMP's GtkScaleButton conflicts with GTK's
569043 – GEGL tool - missing Operation Settings for all sub-tools
568890 – don't rely on GtkAction implementation details
568909 – wrong RGB values for color names in libgimpcolor/gimprgb-parse.c
568839 – wrong hex RGB value for the color names slategrey and slategray
559408 - Brushes dragged to the image window look strange
563337 – Rectangle Select Tool does not allow 1:1 fixed ratio
568016 – Black pullout parameter of plug-in-newsprint has no effect
562818 – First image opened in GIMP offset
562213 – Align Tool doesn't work properly if it is the active tool
at startup

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