The new “Sample merged” options will allow to pick visible colors when relevant, for instance here with the “Colorize” operation. HEIF: improved HEIC and newly added AVIF support ♪VIF is the HEIF variant using AV1 compression (instead of HEVC in theSame HEIF container format, which is the default and also called HEIC).This format was highly awaited as being an open, royalty-free, videoAVIF is already supported on the web in Firefox (experimentally, youMust enable in about:config), Chrome and Opera,Which makes it a serious contender as a web image format.It is now supported by GIMP, both for import and export.Not only this, but HEIF files (both AVIF and HEIC) can now be importedAnd exported in high bit depth (10- and 12-bit per channel).
GIMP 2.10.20 brings AVIF support, as well high-bit depth support.It will also import NCLX profiles and metadata.And finally, NCLX color profiles and metadata will now be properly imported.These changes all happened thanks to the awesome contributions of Daniel Novomesky.
PSP ¶The plug-in for reading PSP (Paint Shop Pro) files has received numerousBug fixes and improvements. Raster layers from PSP images overVersion 6 are now supported, as well as 16-bit integer, grayscale, andFurthermore, PSP blend modes are now better converted to GIMP layerThe importer is also much more robust and is even able to fix errors ofSome files which may have been wrongly exported by third party software.It also handles some edge cases like zero-length layer names better.All these improvements were made by Jacob Boerema, one of GIMP newest core contributors. TIFF ¶Multi-layer TIFF export got improved by allowing to crop layers to imageBounds in the exported image. If you encounter any problems in accessing the.GIMP 2.10.22 is a bug fix release, which for once contains mostlyGIMP (/ m p / GHIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.
GIMP is released under GPL-3.0-or-later license and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Improved HEIC and newly added AVIF supportGMIC for GIMP 2.8/2.10 GMIC helps you to process digital images.