Open source image editing application GIMP has always been free, but the work required to continue building and improving the software doesn’t come without cost. In a recent post, the team asks GIMP’s users to lend financial support to Øyvind Kolås, the man behind the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) and 42% of its commits.
Kolås is responsible for numerous improvements to the graphics engine GEGL, as well as the pixel data conversion library babl. Thanks to this work, in part, GIMP 2.10 will offer numerous notable features including the previously announced 16-bit and 32-bit color channel processing. However, some requested features are still missing, including CMYK and spot colors support, additional filters, better GPU usage and more.
To help get the ball rolling on those features and others like them, GIMP is pointing users toward a Patreon page for Kolås, where he explains, “GIMP does not redistribute donations to developers/contributors — and I am currently living off savings…” Thus far 186 patrons have lended a total of $ 793/month support for Kolås. Support options for prospective patrons starts at $ 2/month, and ranges up to $ 128/month or higher for institutions.
Via: GIMP
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
