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A GIMP 2.8 preview

A GIMP 2.8 preview

Posted Sep 9, 2009 3:42 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: A GIMP 2.8 preview by drag
Parent article: A GIMP 2.8 preview

Well, I certainly hope that translates to such niceties as 16-bit / floating point color depth and non-destructive edits in the long run. I'm not holding my breath that everything GEGL supports works in 2.8.0.


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A GIMP 2.8 preview

Posted Sep 9, 2009 14:30 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well ya. The developers stated that they still have not transitioned fully to gegl. I think in 2.6 they are using it as some filters and plugins, with this release they are using it in the layers. This is how they are able to do the "layer group" features.

They probably won't start replacing the legacy 8-bit-only rendering engine until after 2.8 is out.

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