
"Fragmentation" isn't a problem with OS X like it is with Windows, but you NEED "swap file" space for overwrites and edits of files you're working with, and if 17mb puts you in a bind. If I don't NEED it on my Mac HD, it goes elsewhere. I also have more than 160Gb in flash drives, and another 160Gb HD for long term storage of things I rarely access. I have a 1Tb Time Machine and a 2Tb Storage drive which has 882Gb available still. My Mini has a 500Gb and I have 340Gb available. You can run it under that for a while, but you should back files up externally and clear out stuff to keep things running smoothly. "You don't ever want to let a hard drive get below 25% available for very long, and NEVER let it get below 15% available if you don't want big troubles."Īs a rule, if you have a 500Gb Hard drive, you want to keep 125Gb available most all the time. I'll pass along some wisdom I was granted by a "Mac guru" years ago. Layer Groups: Now, image layers can be organised in a tree-like structure.A bigger issue would be the fact that a mere 17mb could cause you problems on your hard drive from an available space standpoint.
#GIMP FOR MAC 10.9.1 UPDATE#
Save & Export: A rather significant conceptual update is that saving and exporting images now are separated activities.
More Screen Real Easted For Dockable Dialogs. Multi-Column Doc Windows: GIMP 2.8 enables dockable dialogs in a dock window to be set in multiple columns. Single Window Mode: You can easily toggle now between single and multi-window mode. In this updated GIMP team focuses on providing advance User Interface. Note: For more precise information you can go through GIMP 2.10 Release Notes GIMP 2.8 Color tools: Color submenu tool has been removed, and the color tool has been refactored to become GEGL-based filters. Better selection tools: Select tool can finally make subpixel selection in complex cases. Warp Transform: The new Warp Transform tool lets you doing localized transforms like shifting or growing pixels with a soft brush and undo support. Linear Burn, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix, Exclusion, Merge, and Split. Layers & Mask: LCH layer modes: Hue, Chroma, Color, and Lightness. Pass-Through mode for layer groups. Color management revamped: This made it possible, in precise, to offer color management to all custom widgets we could think of: color, image previews, and pattern previews, etc. Linear color space workflow: Now , being able to work on images in linear RGB color space as opposed to gamma-corrected (perceptual) RGB color space. Multi-Threading: Lets making use of multiple cores for processing. High Bit Depth Support: Allows processing images with up to 32-bit per color channel accuracy and TIFF, open/export PSD, EXR, PNG, and RGBE files in their native fidelity. 4 user interface themes available in GIMP: Dark (default), Light, Gray, and System. The first noticeable thing is the New Dark theme and Symbolic Icons. GIMP 2.10 is the outcome of six years of work that initially focused on porting the program to a new image-processing engine, GEGL However, this update is a big one, and we are going to describe it’s main features related to user interface and HiDPI support.