Here it is: GIMP 2.8.0 is available now

Wed, 9 May 2012 23:46:51 +0200

GIMP 2.8.0 has been released and in the last few days I‘ve been working on the packages for Mac OS X to get them ready for download.
And now, I‘m glad to announce the GIMP 2.8.0 packages for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion.
A lot of things have been changed in the 2.8 series of GIMP. For a more detailed look at all the new features, go over to the Gimp Release Notes and see what the new and shiny 2.8.0 will give to you.
And to make the GIMP on OS X version even more attractive for photo editing, I‘ve included a lot of powerful plugins and added some code to the the sources which will preserve EXIF and IPTC metadata on TIFF and JPEG images, so they don‘t get lost in your photo editing workflow.
For a brief information about all those other great and powerful plugins which are shipped preinstalled with the GIMP on OS X packages, just go to the Photo Editing page.
Finally, if you like the GIMP on OS X packages and all my efforts to give you the best open source image editing and manipulating solftware right on your Mac, please consider to support this project and make some donation.
So, enough of words, download the new package and
enjoy your new GIMP ...
Simone Karin

GIMP 2.6.12: final version of 2.6 series

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:12:26 +0100

GIMP 2.6.12 has been released. This is the final version of the current stable 2.6.12 series.
Beside a lot of bug fixes, and to shorten the time to the release of 2.8 a bit, I‘ve included a new plugin: exif-browser. This will, as its name implies, let you browse the EXIF data of your images.
And to make the GIMP on OS X version even more attractive for photo editing, I‘ve added some code to the the sources which will preserve EXIF and IPTC metadata on TIFF and JPEG images, so they don‘t get lost in your photo editing workflow.
For a brief information about all those other great and powerful plugins which are shipped preinstalled with the GIMP on OS X packages, just go to the Photo Editing page.
So, enjoy your new GIMP ...
-skl

Developers needed: help fixing bugs

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:09:08 +0100

Hi folks,

since more than one year I'm offering GIMP packages for Mac OS X. All of the work is done by only one person, by me. This is okay as long as there's only few to do and bugs are more or less easily to squeeze out.

But now there's one major bug in GTK+, which will prevent GIMP 2.8 to work properly with tablets. This bug is in all GTK+ version 2.17 or higher. Since GIMP 2.8 depends on at least GTK+ 2.18, GIMP 2.8 will lack tablet support.

So, if you are a developer, capable of GTK+, GLIB2, GIMP, MacPorts and bash scripting, it would be nice if you'll join this project and help to make GIMP 2.8 work properly with graphic tablets on Macs.

Without your help, it's likely that GIMP 2.8 won't run on Mac OS X. Don't let GIMP on OS X die !

So, join the project, fix the bug and help offering one of the best image manipulating programs to Mac users: GIMP.

-skl ( skl at lisanet dot de )

Here some information about the bug:

The filechooser dialog (and any other GTK+ standard dialog ?) doesn't recognize any press events from the pen / tablet. Just read this posting:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/msg19192.html

and especially this reply

http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/msg19193.html

Updates for Leopard and Tiger are online

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:29:14 +0200

It‘s been quite some time since I annouced the 2.6.11 builds for Leopard and Tiger system. Now they are available and I‘ve put them online. So just go over to the Donwload page and get you new GIMP.
This version fixes some bugs in GIMP. For more details please read the ChangeLog. There are no other changes made to the GIMP on OS X bundles and no other plugins have been updated or changed. For a brief information about all those great and powerful plugins which are shipped preinstalled with the GIMP on OS X packages, just go to the Photo Editing page here on this site.
Thanks for beeing so patient and ...
happy gimping.
-skl

Links

Here it is: GIMP 2.8.0 is available now

GIMP 2.6.12: final version of 2.6 series

Developers needed: help fixing bugs

Updates for Leopard and Tiger are online