Thread: GEGL operations and tools

The talk of the town is, however, GIMP's GEGL integration. As already mentioned, GEGL supports high-end graph-based editing with 32-bit colour channel support. And although version 2.6 carries the GEGL tag with honour, is GEGL integration really worth it? No! There are many reasons GEGL doesn't make version 2.6 much better than 2.4 because the developers haven't You can activate GEGL from Colours~Use GEGL.

There are only two operations possible with GEGL-one, to enable it, and the other can be accessed from Tools GEGL Operations. This option has lots of options like Gaussian Blur and White Balance, to name a few.



Additionally, GEGL operations and plug-ins are sluggish as compared to old plug-ins. A newbie will surely get confused with what GEGL is all about. Though the GIMP 2.6 launch announcement does promise better inter-portability of GEGL and with version 2.8. Apart from these major changes, there have been modifications in existing tools. So let's take a look at some of the better plug-ins that come along with GIMP 2.6