The old version of the website was created 7 years ago. A lot has change since then. E.g. the old CMS cannot be deployed on modern server distributions of Linux due to PHP incompatibilities. So we rewrote the website from scratch and used the latest technologies. Here is a list of the most important changes:
| 1. Lens Flare: just moving a single handle around (the one used | |
| by Handle Transform tool and Blend tool) | |
| 2. Circular Motion Blur: Spiral-like, center + angle | |
| 3. Kaleidoscope: generally looks like a candidate with a basic gradient line, where: | |
| - inner handle is the center of the transform, | |
| - outer handle is Scale + Mirror Rotation. |
Thanks to GEGL, our new image processing library, GIMP now supports manipulation of pixels with 16, 32 or 64 bit depth per color channel precision, both integer and float. This greatly reduces the loss of colors which occurs at 8bit precision to the rounding of color values and improves the rendering of gradients.
You will find the precision switch in the Image menu. Whenever you load an image that was saved in higher bit depth precision (see File Formats section below), GIMP automatically switches to the relevant mode.