GIMP 2.8 culminates 3 ½ years of hard work by your development team. With the new version get the groups to the layers, the single-window interface (finally) and other design improvements as to the panels. Some of the things that first note will be the new single-window mode is not enabled by default (Menu »Windows» Screen mode only), an edit text layers and much improved layer grouping style Adobe Photoshop .
The differences you can find with respect to version 2.6 are important and you seem to another program as the computer itself. All tools (and some plugins) have been ported to Cairo (a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices that currently supports X-Windows, Quartz, Win32, PostScript, PDF , SVG and, experimentally, OpenGL, BeOS, OS / 2 and DirectFB) to provide a more smooth antialiasing on graphics and improve the appearance of rendering Gimp. Besides all the tools have progress indicator. Another aspect of change is the concept of "record" which will use the native format of Gimp ( XCF ) and we will handle other formats through export. Support for tablets, improved file plugins, presets for improved tools, improved brushes and many more minor changes in this version of Gimp 2.8 . Many small details but definitely will be consolidated?
