I use GIMP every day. I use it to create my book covers, article graphics, and much more. Because of this, I strive to get as much power from the tool as possible. So, the day I stumbled upon G'MIC was a happy accident that I'll never forget. What is G'MIC, you ask? It stands for Grey's Magic for Image Computing, and it's an easy-to-use GIMP plugin that offers a ton of pre-defined image filters and effects.
The plugin is also highly customizable, with the ability to set favorites and even add your own filters. With G'MIC, you'll find hundreds of possible filters to choose from, each of which can be tweaked to meet your needs. But before you can use G'MIC, you have to install it, because it's not there by default.
GIMP 2.8 Release Notes. GIMP 2.8 is the result of three years of hard work and collaborative development. A rather big conceptual change is that saving and exporting images now are clearly separated activities. Saving an image can only be done in the XCF format which is GIMP’s.