The new release improves the handling which should result in fewer conflicts and issues. GIMP 2.10.6 improves DLL handling on Windows further to avoid what is commonly known as DLL-hell.

Vertical, left to right (upright orientation).

Vertical, left to right (mixed orientation).

Vertical, right to left (upright orientation).

Vertical, right to left (mixed orientation).

The text tool supports the following options in GIMP 2.10.6:

The new version of GIMP introduces vertical text layer support next to all that which is particularly useful for East-Asian writing systems that use the orientation but also for design. Long Shadow, which you find under Filters > Light and Shadow > Long Shadow, creates long shadows using several visual styles.Little Planet, which you find under Filters > Map > Little Planet,Â takes the image (preferably a panorama image) and turns it into miniature planets.GIMP 2.10.6 includes two new filters that users can make use of:

Press Shift-M to launch the Measure tool in GIMP or select Tools > Measure from the menu at the top. The Straighten mode is set to auto by default when used, Straighten will 'snap to the smaller angle to decide for vertical or horizontal straightening' but it is possible to override this by selecting horizontal or vertical from the measure tools panel. GIMP introduced a new Horizon Straightening tool in GIMP 2.10.4 and with GIMP 2.10.6 comes vertical straightening support. If you work with a lot of layers and relatively large images regularly, you will notice that responsiveness in regards to scrolling the list or hiding/showing layers improved significantly in GIMP 2.10.6 thanks to switching to asynchronous rendering. As far as editor related changes are concerned, there are some.

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