


Better handling of the Exif “Orientation” metadata.These and other changes in GIMP 2.10.22 at-a-glance: dds files even if they have invalid header flags. webp image formats and the editor picks up the ability to import and open. bmp exports will now include colour masks (where applicable) there’s better detection of. tiff files with layers cropped to image bounds new. This includes showing raster layers from files saved in recent versions support for 16-bit integer, grayscale, and indexed images and conversion of PSP blend modes to GIMP layer modes.Ĭreatives can also (optionally) export multi-layer. GIMP 2.10.11 also comes with better support for the. The file format improvements don’t end there, either. It’s being positioned as the next big web image format - and GIMP 2.10.22 supports opening and saving images using it. Google tells me it’s a variation of the HEIF format (popularised by Apple devices) that uses AV1 compression. What’s AVIF? I’ll admit that I wasn’t familiar with it. GIMP 2.10.22 is described as a “bug fix release” but includes a number of notable new features too, not least of which is support for opening and saving AVIF image files. A new version of GIMP is available for download.
