{"id":7772,"date":"2018-05-22T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2018-05-22T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:01:25","slug":"gimp-2-10-2-released-heif-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/gimp-2-10-2-released-heif-support\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 2.10.2 Released with HEIF Support (How to Upgrade)"},"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 2.10.2, the first bug-fix release for the GIMP 2.10 series, was released 2 days ago. And now you can easily install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/news\/2018\/05\/20\/gimp-2-10-2-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">GIMP 2.10.2<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add HEIF image format support both for loading and export<\/li>\n<li><b>Spherize<\/b> filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap<\/li>\n<li><b>Recursive Transform<\/b> filter to create a Droste effect<\/li>\n<li>Single-window screenshots improvement for Windows.<\/li>\n<li>Histogram computation improvement which eliminates some UI freezes<\/li>\n<li>Document update and a total of 44 bug-fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install GIMP 2.10.2 via PPA in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The new release has been made into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~otto-kesselgulasch\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gimp\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a> for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10. <\/p>\n<p><i>Ubuntu 16.04 is not supported at the moment due to inextricably Glib dependencies.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcuts, or by searching for &#8216;Terminal&#8217; from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type your password (no visual feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-ppa-bionic-600x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"79\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-ppa-bionic-600x79.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-ppa-bionic-450x59.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-ppa-bionic.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> After added the PPA, you can upgrade to GIMP 2.10.2 from an existing release using <b>Software Updater<\/b> (Update Manager):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-gimp-600x404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-gimp-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-gimp-450x303.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-gimp.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run commands one by one in terminal to install or upgrade GIMP:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install gimp<\/pre>\n<p><i>Tip: <code>apt update<\/code> command is not required for Ubuntu 18.04 since it automatically refresh repository caches after adding PPA.<\/i><\/p>\n<h4>How to Restore:<\/h4>\n<p>For any reason, you can restore to the old GIMP 2.8.22 by running following command in terminal to purge the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIMP 2.10.2, the first bug-fix release for the GIMP 2.10 series, was released 2 days ago. And now you can easily install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and derivatives. GIMP 2.10.2 release highlights: Add HEIF image format support both for loading and export Spherize filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap Recursive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[764,1085],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-gimp","tag-image-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772","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=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}