{"id":10295,"date":"2020-06-13T16:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T16:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2020-06-13T16:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T16:16:32","slug":"gimp-2-10-20-better-psd-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/gimp-2-10-20-better-psd-support\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 2.10.20 Released with Better PSD Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gimp-icon.png\" alt=\"GIMP extra color palettes\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GIMP image editor 2.10.20 was released a few days ago with some new features as well as important bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>GIMP 2.10.20 release highlights according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/news\/2020\/06\/11\/gimp-2-10-20-released\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tool-group menus can now expand on hover<\/li>\n<li>Non-destructive cropping now available by cropping the canvas rather than actual pixels<\/li>\n<li>Better PSD support: exporting of 16-bit files now available, reading\/writing channels in the right order<\/li>\n<li>On-canvas controls for the Vignette filter<\/li>\n<li>New filters: Bloom, Focus Blur, Lens Blur, Variable Blur<\/li>\n<li>Blending options now built into filter dialogs<\/li>\n<li>Over 30 bugfixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gimp-21020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gimp-21020.png 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gimp-21020-450x238.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install GIMP 2.10.20 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p><b>Ubuntu PPA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It seems that the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~otto-kesselgulasch\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gimp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">otto&#8217;s PPA<\/a> is not being updated, while it&#8217;s still at v2.10.14.<\/p>\n<p><b>Snap package:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The community maintained GIMP Snap package is still v2.10.18 at the moment. If you&#8217;ve installed it on your system, it will be auto-updated once the new package published.<\/p>\n<p><b>Flatpak package:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>GIMP 2.10.20 Flatpak package was made into flathub repository on June 7 once the source tarball was available. You can install it by running following commands one by one in terminal:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install flatpak:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-600x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"102\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-600x102.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-450x77.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Add the flathub repository by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-450x75.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.)<\/b> Finally install GIMP flatpak via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak install flathub org.gimp.GIMP<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-gimp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-gimp.png 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-gimp-450x286.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<b>Optional<\/b>) To update installed GIMP Flatpak package, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak update org.gimp.GIMP<\/pre>\n<p>To remove GIMP flatpak package, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak uninstall org.gimp.GIMP<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIMP image editor 2.10.20 was released a few days ago with some new features as well as important bug-fixes. GIMP 2.10.20 release highlights according to the release note: Tool-group menus can now expand on hover Non-destructive cropping now available by cropping the canvas rather than actual pixels Better PSD support: exporting of 16-bit files now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[764],"class_list":["post-10295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gimp"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}