[Ptx][PanoTools] Announce CinePaint 0.20

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

CinePaint version 0.20-0 is a major release of the motion pictures deep 
colour paint and retouching programm. CinePaint is a open source 
application running on *unices including Linux and on osX through X11.

This release covers the gtk version of CinePaint. While some CinePaint 
developers maintain this code base, it will be substituted once the new 
architecture, called Glasgow, is ready to use. Glasgow covers a complete 
new high performance, highly interoperable scanline core and a new user 
interface written in FLTK.

Changes:

    * Overall stability has improved.
    * Many bugs where fixed.


Colour management changes:

    * Softproofing is introduced.
    * The gutenprint plug-in uses the proofing profile as default
      separation target.
    * User interface is more clear regarding colourmanaging. Many labels 
      where added.
    * Profile naming suggestions by Chris Murphy where followed. visible 
      in the preferences.
    * Single layer visualisation for all types of colour channels is more 
      admireable.
    * OpenEXR <-> ICC colour space information conversation for both 
      loading and saving this HDR image format where added.


HighDynamicRange (HDR) changes:

    * HDR creation, see below
    * The expose item is moved from <imagemenu>-->Color-->Expose Image to 
      <imagemenu>-->View-->Expose. It is now a per window setting and only 
      available for 32-bit floats.
    * PortableFloatMaps (PFM) are supported for reading


New plug-ins where added to the release:

    * bracketing to HDR - HDR creation from 8-bit images: by Hartmut 
Sbosny
    * statistic filter: minimum and median by Nicola Montecchiari
    * pnm complet rewrite for 8/16/32 bit raw reading: by Kai-Uwe Behrmann


patches:

    * 1213869 autoconf update to xwd plugin liquidphoto (Tom Hufmann)
    * 1275118 building plug-ins outside source tree liquidphoto

As well Frank Peters provided a collection of curves from the internet. 
Although these curves were originally intended for use with Nikon cameras, 
they should be of general interesst to correct images from many digital 
sources.



Some notes about the last minor release 0.19-1:

New plug-ins:
The print plug-in utilises Gutenprint for throughout 16-bit colourmanaged 
printing. Note Gutenprint will be colour stable once it lefts behind beta 
status. (This should be reached as of version 5.0.0rc1 for most inkjet 
printers.)

The collect plug-in allows for selecting a number of images with the same 
bit depth and building a layered image from them.

The new ICC Examin plug-in allowes visualisation of actual ICC profiles 
tags.

The new ICC Watch plug-in allowes viewing image colours in the actual 
threedimensional CIE*Lab colour space. The Image and Proofing gamut can be 
included.

Note: the last two plug-ins need the "ICC Examin" application, which is 
downloadable from 
http://www.behrmann.name/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=70

The source package is available from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75029
The relese notes are readable at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=366248


Enjoy