Our Download of the Day is The Gimp 2.8.0.

The latest version of The Gimp is out, if you haven't heard of it before, here's what it can do:

The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

• Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
• Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
• Full Alpha channel support
• Layers and channels
• A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
• Advanced scripting capabilities
• Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
• File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
• Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
• Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

A changelog on this version:

* User Interface

- Single-Window Mode

- Multi-Column Dock Windows

- More Screen Real Estate For Dockable Dialogs

- Save And Export

- Layer Groups

- Tools Drawn With Cairo

- On-Canvas Text Editing

- Keyboard Shortcut Changes

- Simple Math In Size Entries

- Minor Changes

* Tools & Plug-ins

- Brush System Improvements

- Tool Preset Improvements

- Cage Transform Tool

- File Plug-Ins

- For Tablet Users

- Resource Tagging

- Resources

- Minor Changes

* Miscellaneous

- Plug-in Development

* API Changes

You can download The Gimp 2.8.0 here.