Install GIMP in Ubuntu terminal – install GIMP ppa in ubuntu. Learn how to use GIMP in Ubuntu Linux. GIMP 2.10.10 is released with many new features and improvements.
In total, since GIMP 2.10.8, 775 commits were contributed (average of 5 commits a day) to the GIMP 2.10 branch (and more to other development branches). This means a lot of bugs were fixed (41 bug reports were closed during this development span), performance were improved, and your work is made safer.
Version 2.10.10 highlights include:
- Line art detection in the Bucket Fill tool for comic artists
- Various usability improvements in transformation tools
- Sample Merged option added to the Heal tool and fixed in the Clone tool
- Parametric brushes now have 32-bit per channel precision
- Easier brush and pattern creation workflow
- On-canvas layer selection
- Faster saving/exporting and layer groups rendering
- Initial DDS support
- Many improvements in GEGL, the image processing engine
Notable improvements
Improved tools
Bucket Fill tool
The Bucket Fill tool got a bit of a revamp making it much easier to use. It also got a new “Fill by line art detection” mode (a.k.a. “Smart Colorization”)!
Quick Color picking
Similarly to painting tools, it is now possible to pick surrounding
colors on canvas with the Ctrl modifier, without having to switch to
Color Picker tool.
Click and drag to fill
In “Fill similar colors” and “Fill by line art detection” modes, you can now keep the mouse button down to continue filling more areas.
Fill by line art detection
Finally, the highlight change on the Bucket Fill tool is a new algorithm for painters, allowing to fill areas surrounded by “line arts”, while trying to leave no unfilled pixels near the lines, and closing potential zones.
Transformation tools
Ell improved various shortcomings on several transformation tools:
- The Scale tool now scales from the center, even when using numeric input.
- The Unified Transform tool defaults to preserving the aspect ratio when scaling up or down.
- New “Constrain handles” and “Around center” options to the Perspective Transform tool’s GUI, which are similar to the corresponding options of the Unified Transform tool.
- New “Readjust” button in several transformation tools to readjust transform handles based on the current zoom level.
- Forward and backward transform directions can be linked, which allows moving the handles without affecting the transformation, letting you manually readjust their position.
Better brushes
32-bit parametric brushes
Michael Natterer and Ell worked a lot on a better brush support in GIMP. A major improvement for painters was making parametric brushes finally 32-bit float, following the high-bit depth move for color processing. The main advantage will be to avoid posterization on large brushes, especially with darker colors.
It is to be noted that raster brushes are still 8-bit. Promoting them to 32-bit float is also a planned future work.
Moreover, plug-ins only have access to 8-bit versions of high-precision brushes and patterns. A new API, not available yet, will be required to handle high-precision data.
Open as Image
The “Brushes” dock now provides an “Open brush as image” button to quickly open a brush file, allowing easier brush edits.
Faster and safer GIMP
As usual, many bugs were fixed and a lot of optimizations were made to existing part of the code. Of them these 2 improvements are particularly noteworthy:
Saving and exporting safer
Various parts of the file-writing code were made more robust by not overwriting the file when an error occured. In particular XCF saving and exporting to various image formats should be safer now.
Layer groups rendered faster
Layer groups are now rendered in bigger chunks rather than tile-by-tile (this used to pretty much eliminate multithreading for groups), which improves the rendering speed.
And more!
In total, since GIMP 2.10.8, 775 commits were contributed (average of 5 commits a day) to the GIMP 2.10 branch (and more to other development branches). This means a lot of bugs were fixed (41 bug reports were closed during this development span), performance were improved, and your work is made safer…
And as we should also count babl (66 commits for babl 0.1.62) and GEGL (404 commits for GEGL 0.4.14), you can bet that this release is again as awesome as ever!
Moreover 21 translations were updated.
Install GIMP Image Editor 2.10.10 in Ubuntu
Run the following commands in terminal to Install GIMP Image Editor 2.10.10in Ubuntu:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get install snapd
sudo snap install gimp
Using PPA
sudo apt update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install gimp