I have been playing around with Gimp 2.7.2 for Windows 7 64-bit. Check out this screenshot with the new splash screen!
One of the reasons for wanting to use 2.7.2 is that the text tool is broken in Gimp 2.7.1. Also, we have nice tools like the cage transform tool, which should replace the iwarp tool for sure. Anyway, give it a try, you will like it. However, see also the discussion on this here.
Caveats
Currently Gimp 2.7.2 does not exactly compile on Windows due to a Windows resource issue. If you try to compile you get an error stating that there is no rule to make gimp-2.7.rc.o. I have filed a bug report on this. In the meantime, I had to remove all references to rc.o makes in all the makefiles under the Gimp 2.7.2 tree. Then Gimp does compile and I am able to use it. Of course, since you are not using the Windows resources, one caveat I have found is that you cannot drag-and-drop files to edit. I find this a minor inconvenience for the time being.
In the meantime, Gimp 2.7.1 is available from here.
Gimp 2.7.1 Plugins
I have compiled some plugins for Gimp 2.7.1 which you may find useful. Please note that these are made available without any warranty or guarantees. They work for me but it is not certain that they will work for you. If you find them useful and they do work for you, please consider mentioning it in the Gimp registry forum so others can benefit from your usage, or drop me a line.
Note that these have been compiled with x86_64-w64-mingw32 gcc 4.4.5 on a system running Msys with Gimp version 2.7.1. When I finish compiling for 2.7.2, I will make those available as well.
Liquid Scaling
You can download the Gimp Liquid plugin from the left sidebar. This plugin is version 1.0.4 which requires the included liquid rescale library. You will need to unzip this somewhere. Then for installation do the following: Copy the DLL liblqr-1-0.dll to the main GIMP bin directory. On Windows 7 64-bit, if you have used the standard location for installation, this should be C:\Program Files\Gimp 2.7\bin. Next copy the file gimp-lqr-plugin.exe into the plugin directory. This would be C:\Program Files\Gimp 2.7\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins. You will need to find the appropriate locations in your system if the above are not your default locations.
You will need to restart GIMP and you should find the liquid plugin under the Layer menu heading.
Wavelet Related
One of the most useful plugins that I end up using repeatedly is the wavelet family of plugins. They are made available by user Marcor here.
There are 3 plugins in this zipfile. The first, Decompose, allows you to decompose an image to various levels of detail that you can then use to smooth an image. The other two, Denoise and Sharpen, are self-explanatory. There are a lot of tutorials available that can guide you in using these plugins.
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