GIMP (abbreviated from GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a lightweight,
highly capable and free graphic manipulation tool, offering some really
advanced features which can be used to create or edit images. It is
highly customizable and expandable, supports various plug-ins, and can
be used with scripts. Even though it was created in an open source
environment, its development team strived to create highly capable image
editing suite that can be used for image manipulation, editing and
polishing of the highest degree, rivaling the capabilities and the user
interface of any modern professional solutions (most notably Adopbe
Photoshop).
First version of GIMP appeared online in distant January if 1996, created under the leadership of computer programmers Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis during one semester at the Berkley, famous University in California. As years went on this great raster graphics editor was ported to many operating systems, from ancient AmigaOS, to the all versions of Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Free BSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. Internet and written media often portrayed GIMP as very viable replacement for other professional solutions, which only fueled GIMP’s developers to enhance its capabilities with the new tools and features that will cater both novices and professionals.
Modern interface of GIMP does not differ much from the other professional image editors. Basic painting tools are on the left, large painting canvas takes majority of the screen, and advanced tool and layer controls are on the right. Using wide variety of contextual menus and fixed menus on the top of the app, users can control literary anything image editing related, with tools that are even expandable by third party plugins.
GIMP Main Features:
Customizable Interface
Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Starting from the widget theme, allowing you to change colors, widget spacings and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulized into so called docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden.
Photo Enhancement
Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens' barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface.
Digital Retouching
GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unneeded details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the new healing tool. With the perspective clone tool, it's not difficult to clone objects with perspective in mind just as easily as with the orthogonal clone.
Hardware Support
GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI controllers. You can bind often-used actions to device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller's slider. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while you paint, bind your favorite scripts to buttons. Speed up your workflow!
File Formats
The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. The architecture allows to extend GIMP's format capabilities with a plug-in. You can find some rare format support in the GIMP plugin registry.
To save disk space, any format can be saved with an archive extension such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2 and GIMP will transparently compress the file without you needing to do any extra steps.
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First version of GIMP appeared online in distant January if 1996, created under the leadership of computer programmers Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis during one semester at the Berkley, famous University in California. As years went on this great raster graphics editor was ported to many operating systems, from ancient AmigaOS, to the all versions of Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Free BSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. Internet and written media often portrayed GIMP as very viable replacement for other professional solutions, which only fueled GIMP’s developers to enhance its capabilities with the new tools and features that will cater both novices and professionals.
Modern interface of GIMP does not differ much from the other professional image editors. Basic painting tools are on the left, large painting canvas takes majority of the screen, and advanced tool and layer controls are on the right. Using wide variety of contextual menus and fixed menus on the top of the app, users can control literary anything image editing related, with tools that are even expandable by third party plugins.
Customizable Interface
Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Starting from the widget theme, allowing you to change colors, widget spacings and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulized into so called docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden.
Photo Enhancement
Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens' barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface.
Digital Retouching
GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unneeded details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the new healing tool. With the perspective clone tool, it's not difficult to clone objects with perspective in mind just as easily as with the orthogonal clone.
Hardware Support
GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI controllers. You can bind often-used actions to device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller's slider. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while you paint, bind your favorite scripts to buttons. Speed up your workflow!
File Formats
The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. The architecture allows to extend GIMP's format capabilities with a plug-in. You can find some rare format support in the GIMP plugin registry.
To save disk space, any format can be saved with an archive extension such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2 and GIMP will transparently compress the file without you needing to do any extra steps.
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