GIMP 2.9.8 Open-Source Image Editor Released with On-Canvas Gradient Editing

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

GIMP 2.9.8, a development version towards the major GIMP 2.10 release, was announced by developer Alexandre Prokoudine for all supported platforms, including Linux, Mac, and Windows.

GIMP is one of the most popular open-source and free image editors and viewers, used by default in numerous GNU/Linux distributions. While still working on the new features of the GIMP 2.10 stable release, the development team pushed yet another development build that introduces a bunch of improvements and a highly-anticipated feature, on-canvas gradient editing.

“First of all, it pretty much eliminates the need for the old Gradient Editor dialog, as all of the dialog’s features are now available directly on the canvas,” write Alexandre Prokoudine in the announcement. “You can create and delete color stops, select and shift them, assign colors to color stops, change blending and coloring for segments between color … (read more)

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