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You can take Gimp, fix it up, brand it, and sell.

"Fix it up" includes adding 16-bit-per-channel colour, something that photographers have been crying out for that the GIMP team hasn't managed in 15 years of trying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth#Deep_color_.2830.2F...

This should be added soon according to http://gimpfoo.de/2012/04/17/goat-invasion-in-gimp/

   GIMP 2.10’s core will be 100% ported to GEGL, and
   all of the legacy pixel fiddling API for plug-ins
   is going to be deprecated. Once the core is completely
   ported, it will be a minor effort to simply “switch on”
   high bit depths and whatever color models we’d
   like to see.

More than 8bpp color depth is available in GIMP and has been so for a while now if you use the development version. GIMP was a little late to the game, but the issue has been fixed.

Also: your comment was arrogant and impolite towards the GIMP team.

Having to use the development version with it's collection of unknown bugs and misfeatures is not, in any meaningful sense, being available.

Sometimes you just need a feature before it's available in a released version. You can either go get the dev version or bitch about it. I tend to do the former.

In fact, I use quite a lot of software from their development repositories, e.g. GCC and Blender. It is a very rare occasion that I come by a bug as most open source projects have sane version management practices and branching processes.

It is extremely meaningful if you, you know, actually consider the context of this thread -- which is not someone telling an artist to use GIMP, but a discussion of "fixing up" the program.

The latest release of Gimp (2.8) doesn't even run on OSX. I'd love to use it, but I can't.

You should check that statement again!

http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

The official 2.8 release was what, a week ago? I don't think it's a big deal if it comes out on one platform a few days late. :)

Unless I'm missing something, the latest download available on that site is 2.6. I realize it's free software, so it probably is a little cheeky to complain, but it can't be a photoshop alternative if it's not available on OSX. From what I understand, the new GTK broke tablet compatibility for OSX. If anyone knows enough about those issues and the underlying languages and libraries behind GIMP, consider this an invitation to get involved: http://www.gimp.org/develop/

I'm excited about the unified interface and the new transform tool, so here's hoping it is just a couple more days.

That's odd, 2.8 was clearly available when I viewed that page. Maybe you just had an old version cached?

They only seem to offer links to 2.8 for Snow Leopard and Lion, so that could also be an issue.

OK here it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/

I'd pay for a not-shit Gimp for OS X. In fact I kind of already so (sans Open Source) with Pixelmator.

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