GIMP released version 2.6 with some major improvements. I have not yet downloaded it and plan to do it in few days time.

<a href="http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html">Release notes of 2.6 version.

This version has made some changes in the GUI too and looks quite impressive in the screenshots.

Heres one of them from the GIMP site.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/gimp.org/screenshots/gnome-1280x800-fresh-start.jpg"><img title="GIMP UI" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/gimp.org/screenshots/gnome-1280x800-fresh-start.jpg" alt="GIMP UI" width="1280" height="800" />

Check it out 🙂

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