Portable GIMP 3.0.0 Multilingual
The GIMP Portable is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction. 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.
GIMP Portable is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.
Updated user interface and initial HiDPI support
One thing immediately noticeable about GIMP is the new dark theme and symbolic icons enabled by default. This is meant to somewhat dim the environment and shift the focus towards content.
There are now 4 user interface themes available in GIMP: Dark (default), Gray, Light, and System. Icons are now separate from themes, and we maintain both color and symbolic icons, so you can configure GIMP to have System theme with color icons if you prefer the old look.
Moreover, icons are available in four sizes now, so that GIMP would look better on HiDPI displays. GIMP will do its best to detect which size to use, but you can manually override that selection in Edit > Preferences > Interface > Icon Themes.
Features of GIMP Portable
Painting:
- Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone,
- etc.
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
- Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
- Supports custom brushes and patterns
System:
- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
Advanced Manipulation:
- Full alpha channel support
- Layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
- Editable text layers
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
- Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
- Transformable paths, transformable selections.
- Quickmask to paint a selection.
Extensible:
- A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from
- external programs as in Script-fu
- Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
- Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new
- effect filters
- Over 100 plug-ins already available
Animation:
- Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
- MNG support
- Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
File Handling:
- File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
- Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
- SVG path import/export
What’s NEW:
Major Updates
Non-Destructive Editing: GIMP 3.0 introduces non-destructive editing for most commonly used filters, allowing users to see changes in real-time with on-canvas previews.
File Format Support: Enhanced support for various file formats, including BC7 DDS files, improved PSD export, and many new formats.
Text Editing: Improved text styling capabilities, including outlines, shadows, bevels, and more, with the ability to edit text settings after applying styles.
Layer Management: Easier layer organization with multi-item selection and transformation capabilities.
Color Management: Continued improvements in color management to make GIMP a more advanced image editor.
User Interface and Tools
Updated GTK3 Toolkit: GIMP now uses an updated version of GTK3 for modern desktop compatibility, including fixes for bugs affecting Wayland and Right-To-Left languages3.
New Wilber Logo: A redesigned logo for GIMP1.
Guides Outside Canvas: Ability to place guides outside the image area2.
Paint Select Tool Updates: Enhancements to the Paint Select tool2.
Layer Effects: Ability to add layer effects to layer groups and copy/paste effects with layers2.
Technical Improvements
Image Graph Improvements: Filters now work in high bit-depth formats without converting between formats unnecessarily, preserving image information3.
Thread-Safe Projection Changes: Fixes to ensure thread safety during image projections, preventing crashes3.
API Finalization: Completion of the public API with changes like replacing custom color structures with
GeglColorand improving array formats5.
Bug Fixes and Stability
Bug Fixes: Multiple bug fixes across release candidates, including issues related to settings migration from GIMP 2.10.
Stability Improvements: Fixes for crashes and freezes, particularly on Wayland.
