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  <project_license>GPL-3.0+ AND LGPL-3.0+</project_license>
  <_name>GNU Image Manipulation Program</_name>
  <_summary>Create images and edit photographs</_summary>
  <description>
    <_p>
      GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a
      freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching,
      image composition and image authoring.
    </_p>
    <_p>
      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.
    </_p>
    <_p>
      GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be
      augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about
      anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything
      from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation
      procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is available for Linux,
      Microsoft Windows and OS X.
    </_p>
  </description>

  <url type="donation">http://www.gimp.org/donating/</url>
  <url type="help">http://www.gimp.org/docs/</url>
  <url type="homepage">http://www.gimp.org/</url>
  <screenshots>
    <screenshot type="default">
      <image>http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/linux_mixer.jpg</image>
      <_caption>Screenshot showing channel mixing and layer editor</_caption>
    </screenshot>
  </screenshots>

  <releases>
    <release version="2.9.6">
      <description>
        <p>Core:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Layer modes' code is now refactored to separate gamma-corrected variations from the linear light ones, legacy modes have been preserved to support older XCF files.</li>
          <li>Color tags simplify managing large projects with a lot of layers and layer groups.</li>
          <li>The Mouse Pointer dialog and colors applied to images are now color-managed..</li>
          <li>Gamma and precision selectors for newly created images.</li>
          <li>Never dither when converting to a higher bit depth, or to anything more than 16 bits; don't offer dithering options in these cases.</li>
          <li>Default to linear when converting to 16-bit float.</li>
          <li>Pre-initialize some babl-based pixel format conversion routines at start-up to decrease the initial lazy intialization cost for some interactions.</li>
        </ul>
		
        <p>GUI:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Easily add or remove layer masks by clicking either the layer preview or a new button in the Layers dialog.</li>
          <li>Enhance the Layer Attributes dialog to provide the single UI for setting layer's name, blending mode, opacity, and offset, toggling visibility, link status, various locks, color tags.</li>
          <li>Add a Save As button to the “Quit GIMP” dialog and raise images on click for easy checks.</li>
          <li>Allow to choose fill color when resizing layers and images.</li>
          <li>Quick Mask and Channel Attributes dialogs use the new spinscale widget for the  mask opacity slider.</li>
          <li>Enable grid views of dynamics and tool presets.</li>
          <li>Allow to zoom with middle mouse button + control + drag up/down.</li>
          <li>For all paint tools, when switching to the color picker mode, don't rely on the exact modifier being pressed or released. Instead, check if only the right modifier is pressed after *each* modifier change, and switch to color picking if it is.</li>
          <li>On startup, GIMP checks for duplicate accelerators in menus, and removes duplicates.</li>
          <li>Standard (Freedesktop) and GTK+ icons can now be set by the icon theme for a fully consistent style.</li>
          <li>Many new icons.</li>
          <li>Toolbox buttons do not grab focus anymore, which used to break usage of the Tab key and other canvas-related shortcuts after changing tools with a pointing device click.</li>
          <li>Delete Layer/Channel/Path are consistently the last option in respective dialogs now.</li>
          <li>Extend the text along the tangent of the last path stroke, when the length of the path is shorter than the width of the text to be warped.</li>
          <li>Allow to toggle the histogram dialog between gamma and linear.</li>
          <li>New 'Colors -> Linear Invert' command to provide radiometrically correct color inversion.</li>
        </ul>
		
        <p>Configurability:</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Remember settings of many dialogs across sessions.</li>
          <li>New Interface / Dialog Defaults page in the Preferences dialog to control defaults values of various dialogs.</li>
          <li>Settings on some individual pages of the Preferences dialog can be reset separately now.</li>
          <li>Vertical scrollbar added to keep the height of the Preferences dialog fitting small displays.</li>
          <li>Allow mouse to optionally configure tablet devices</li>
          <li>Allow creating shortcuts containing the Cmd key + mouse wheel events.</li>
          <li>Default to 300ppi and 1920x1080px for new documents.</li>
          <li>Do not allow Alt+[0-9] shortcuts, they are typically reserved for display switching.</li>
        </ul>		  
		
        <p>Tools:</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>The Move tool now shows relative coordinates when moving guides and sample points.</li>
          <li>Performance of the Fuzzy Select and the Bucket Fill tool has been improved.</li>
          <li>The Warp Transform tool now uses the linear sampler to ensure crisp lines after an erase.</li>
          <li>Select by Color and Color Picker tools work now correctly in color spaces other than sRGB.</li>
          <li>Color Picker doesn't snap to anything when picking colors anymore, always draws the outline of the averaged region (not only while the mouse is being pressed), and supports arbitrary range of values regardless of the actual image color precision.</li>
          <li>Uncommitted selection by the Intelligent Scissors tool is not discarded on tool change anymore.</li>
          <li>GIMP now checks whether the first and the last isegments are distinct before closing the curve.</li>
        </ul>        
		
		<p>Painting:</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Rulers, scrollbars, and the Navigation dialog follow canvas rotation now.</li>
          <li>Canvas rotation is now snappier in certain cases.</li>
          <li>For bitmap brushes, GIMP now caches hardness and disables dynamic change of hardness to improve painting performance. Bitmap brushes also don't get clipped anymore, when hardness is less than 100.</li>
        </ul>		  
		
        <p>File Formats</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Add native WebP loader/exporter with support for ICC profiles, animation, metadata.</li>
          <li>The TIFF loader will not generate warnings about private tags anymore.</li>
          <li>Handle linear gamma PNG files correctly.</li>
          <li>Load PSD files with layers which contain additional information with a length that is not divisible by 4.</li>
        </ul>
		
        <p>Printing</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Print resolution can now be reset to defaults, new values for the same image is actually used now without reloading the image.</li>
        </ul>
		
        <p>Plug-ins</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Port smooth-palette to GEGL.</li>
          <li>Enhance the raw (not the digital negative) files plugin: introduce exporting settings and remember them across sessions, make the plugin invokable non-interactively, and more.</li>
        </ul>		  
		
        <p>Color Palettes</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Merge Palettes command is available for multiple selected color palettes now.</li>
        </ul>	
		
        <p>PDB:</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Rename *-paste-as-new to *-paste-as-new-image.</li>
        </ul>
		
        <p>Build:</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Depends on LCMS2.7+ now, because earlier LCMS2 releases caused problems with certain GIMP blend modes.</li>
          <li>Depends on libpng 1.6.25+ to avoid warnings about known incorrect sRGB profiles, also avoid various vulnerabilities.</li>
        </ul>
		
        <p>OS-specific changes:</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Help browser launches on macOS now.</li>
        </ul>		  
		
        <p>Bugs:</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Overall 79 bugs have been fixed or partially addressed since GIMP 2.9.4.</li>
        </ul>		  
		
        <p>Translations:</p>
        <ul>		
          <li>Updated: Catalan, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.9.4">
      <description>

      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.9.2" date="2017-04-09">
      <description>

      </description>
    </release>



  </releases>
 <update_contact>gimp-developer-list_at_gnome.org</update_contact>
  <keywords>
    <keyword>GIMP</keyword>
    <keyword>Photoshop</keyword>
  </keywords>
  <kudos>
    <kudo>HiDpiIcon</kudo>
    <kudo>HighContrast</kudo>
    <kudo>ModernToolkit</kudo>
    <kudo>UserDocs</kudo>
  </kudos>
  <project_group>GNOME</project_group>
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