Maurits thinks aloud

From a warm and humid Netherlands (30 Celcius indoors rightnow) I would like to announce GIMP# 0.10! Highlights from this release:

• GIMP# can now play 30 % of my testset of 200+ Photoshop action files. Next stop (GIMP# 0.11) will be 40 %
• i18n was added. GIMP# is now also available in Italian, Russian and (partly) Dutch
• A new filter called Fragment was added. This is an exact clone of the Photoshop effect with the same name

A special thanks goes to Massimo Perga (i18n code, Italian translation) and Alexandre Prokoudine (Russian translation) for their great contributions.

After releasing GIMP# 0.9 last week (including win32 installer, thanks to Massimo Perga!) it’s now time to look ahead at 0.10. This release will have two goals: Max is working hard on getting i18n into the next release. This means that we will at least get an Italian (congrats to their football team) translation I’m busy at getting the number of playable Photoshop actions up to 30 %. Yesterday I already implemented parsing of older action files and I expect to be able to spend quite some time on hacking this week. That could mean that this time we will have a very short release cycle if both goals are met before the end of July.

Last night we released GIMP# 0.9. Highlights for this release:

• Framework for playing Photoshop actions. Right now this plug-in can play about 20 % of my random set of action files.
• New plug-in to generate Raindrops
• Port of Forge plug-in
• New Blur Average plug-in (Photoshop clone)
• New Pointillize plug-in (Photoshop clone)
• New DifferenceClouds plug-in (Photoshop clone)
• GIMP# plug-ins can now be called non-interactively, for example from within a script-fu
• Support of Drag and Drop in Picture Package for swapping images inside the preview area
• More unit tests (currently about 200)
• Many bug fixes and smaller improvements

The win32 installer will follow within a few days as soon as we have resolved the remaining issues.