And now, on a more serious note than the recently active topic.
GIMP 2.4 has been released; the menus are better-organized, more tools have been added, and on the whole it's been spiffed up.

http://www.gimp.org

I became a little concerned when the Script-Fu menu was nearly empty, but I just found out all those functions have been standardized in the Filters menu.

SWEET!

I don't really see that many differences, except for a few shortcuts. And a few new filters .

For one thing, there's the whole new Colors menu...

And way more than "a few more filters".

And this new tool..."Heal?"

EDIT: Oooo, I love the new rectangle tool!

Too bad Photoshop is still 20 times better than Gimp can ever hope to be.

@Harrierfalcon... you seriously have never heard of "heal?"

Yeah, too bad Photoshop is infinitely more expensive than GIMP can ever hope to be.

No...what's it do? I haven't quite figured it out yet...

Photoshop is cheap compared to the profit benefits it presents compared to the limited-functionality of gimp.

Heal basically removes small blemishes. A great way to test it would be to find a picture of your face (or that of someone else), find a mole, pimple, or other imperfection, and then just set the radius of the tool to be slightly larger than that spot, and click. Of course you'll need to set a nearby starting point that it will start from. If it's anything like heal in photoshop, it will sample the pixels nearby and remove the flaw. Think of it as a smarter clone stamp.

Still. I'd like to save X number of dollars...

I see how the heal tool works now. Neat!

/me luffs GIMP 2.4.

Same here. I have found very few things I can do in Photoshop that I can't figure out how to do in GIMP with little or no additional effort.

The first of many !

I love this desktop. Just because.

Hey Kerm, guess what I used for those 'electricity' bolts?

Those look like paths! I'm having great fun with 2.4 so far.

good stuff, I upgraded as soon as I saw the news

Haha, text along path. Epic wins and such; one more item off the list of things PS has that GIMP doesn't.

Anyone know if Gimp 2.4 will work on Vista? From what I hear, GIMP isn't/wasn't compatible....

Well, from what I read, Keith, the GIMP 2.4 should work just fine on Vista. This is the only thing I've seen, and it really has nothing to do with compatibility.

I installed old GIMP just fine on Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit) - I see no reason this new version won't....

In case any further confirmation is needed, I am indeed pretty confident that GIMP 2.4 works fine under Vista.

I have Gimp 2.4 on Vista, and it seems just fine.

Love the text along path thing, great fun to play with .

I'm really enjoying the fact that they combined the two color menus into a separate menu; that's been excellent for my design efficiency.