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"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...

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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.

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