There is an unofficial ppa available that you can use to install gimp 2. It offers quite a few new features and much better colour management support. The screenshot below features a usersubmitted psd file that has textures layer group in the pass through mode, as opened in gimp 2. They helped me on my first steps making the gimp packages. If i select the newer, snapcraft version, im then asked to authenticate at the snap store, and im a bit unwilling to register for new stuff i may not need later. Michael natterer refactored source code of gimp s tools to make them reuse one anothers oncanvas handles. Gimp is a digital photo manipulation tool for windows and many other platforms thats considered to be the open source free answer to adobe photoshop. Hi, this a tutorial how to install or update gimp 2. That greatly simplified adding oncanvas handles for color stops. How to install the latest gimp image editor in ubuntu 14. His ppa has the latest version of the gnu image manipulation program ready and waiting for ubuntu 17. We show you how to install the latest gimp development release on ubuntu. Although not official the ppa is maintained by a gimp developer. Included in the research is 16bit and 32bit per color channel processing and.
After adding the ppa, open software updater or updater manager and. Newly added color tags simplify managing large projects with a lot of layers and layer groups. As such i think this ppa is the best way to install gimp 2. Ppa youll first need to add the gimp edge ppa to your software sources on ubuntu. Bugs fixed during the precise release cycle this is a report of bug tasks from launchpadbugsfixed in the precise changes mailing list. Thanks to otto meier, an ubuntu ppa with latest gimp packages is. The screenshot below is a reallife psd file opened in gimp 2.