Install GIMP 2.10.20, the latest version of GIMP image editor on Linux Ubuntu. GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
GIMP is a high quality framework for scripted image manipulation, with multi-language support such as C, C++, Perl, Python, Scheme, and more. GIMP provides top-notch color management features to ensure high-fidelity color reproduction across digital and printed media. It is best used in workflows involving other free software such as Scribus, Inkscape, and SwatchBooker.
GIMP 2.10.20 – New and improved GIMP filters
The Vignette filter now has on-canvas controls to visually manipulate the geometry of the vignette rather than enter numeric values in a dialog.
Whichever vignette shape you pick, you will always have control for the inner area that stays unchanged, the border of the vignette where pixels stop changing, and the medium point between the two. Dragging the mouse pointer anywhere outside of the outer control will result in rotating the vignette shape.
In addition, there are two new shapes, ‘Horizontal’ and ‘Vertical’.
3 New filters
There are three new filters all related to imitating out-of-focus blur.
- Variable Blur takes a layer or channel as an input mask to decide which pixels should be blurred (at what percentage of user-defined maximum blur intensity) and what pixels should stay unchanged, and then blurs pixels with Gaussian Blur.
- Lens Blur does the same but provides a far more realistic imitation of the out-of-focus blur, including the partial occlusion of sharp foreground objects by highlights blurred in the background. You also have control of how much highlights are affected.
- Focus Blur provides a simple user interface to out-of-focus blurring using the same on-canvas controls that the updated Vignette filter has. You can choose between Gaussian Blur and Lens Blur as blurring methods. One of the uses for the filter is creating miniature fakes out of regular photos — the effect originally achieved by using a tilt-shift lens that changes the plane of focus.
GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.
Release highlights:
- Tool-group menus can now expand on hover
- Non-destructive cropping now available by cropping the canvas rather than actual pixels
- Better PSD support: exporting of 16-bit files now available, reading/writing channels in the right order
- On-canvas controls for the Vignette filter
- New filters: Bloom, Focus Blur, Lens Blur, Variable Blur
- Blending options now built into filter dialogs
- Over 30 bugfixes
Other changes:
- Painting tools can now save and load opacity and blending mode to/from presets.
- Canon CR3 files are now properly recognized by GIMP and sent to your raw developer software of choice.
- The TWAIN plug-in used for acquiring images via scanners has been slightly refactored and now supports 16-bit RGB/grayscale images.
- PNG and TIFF plug-ins now default to not saving color values when alpha channel is present and 0 itself. This is to address security concerns about using simple cutting to remove sensitive information.
- The PDF plug-in now imports multi-page documents in bottom-first order, similar to animated formats, and also similar to defaults for PDF exporting. This brings consistency but breaks existing behavior in 3rd party scripts.
Install GIMP 2.10.20
Installing GIMP – open a terminal and type the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gimp
Removing GIMP – open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp