GIMP can also run on Solaris and is available for the BSD family of systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Nevertheless, note that many distros decide to pin a specific version of GIMP to their releases, whereas our flatpak will follow GIMP releases closely. It is the preferred method of installing GIMP, as the distribution maintainers take care of all the dependencies and bug fix updates. It's very likely your Unix-like system distribution already comes with a GIMP package. The flatpak build is very new and therefore may have shortcomings. If that is the case, ensure flatpak is installed and if clicking the link still does not prompt to install GIMP, then manually install by command line: It may not work out-of-the-box on some platforms since the flatpak technology is new. Downloadsĭownload the latest version of GIMP 2.The flatpak link above should open your software installer and prompt you to install GIMP (available platforms: i386, x86-64, ARM and AArch64). I show you two methods for accomplishing this task, one using the Channels dialogue and the other using the Paths dialogue. This is useful when drawing complicated selections – or any selections for that matter – and you want to preserve or save the selections for later use (or just make sure you don’t lost the selection). I also show you how to export your selections from one composition and import selections to another image or composition. In this GIMP basics tutorial, I show you how to save selections or selection areas in GIMP 2.10.

How to Save Selections in GIMP (2 Methods)

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