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The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. The Gimp works on many operating systems, in many languages.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

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.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms.


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Here are some key features of "The Gimp":

Painting:

· Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
· Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
· Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
· Supports custom brushes and patterns

System:

· Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
· Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time

Advanced Manipulation:

· Full alpha channel support
· Layers and channels
· Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
· Editable text layers
· Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
· Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
· Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
· Transformable paths, transformable selections.
· Quickmask to paint a selection.

Extensible:

· A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
· Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
· Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
· Over 100 plug-ins already available

Animation:

· Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
· MNG support
· Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
· Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
· Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

File Handling:

· File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
· Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
· SVG path import/export
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

UI:

· Use GimpSpinScales instead of scale entries in all dockable widgets
· Allow the spin scale to control a range larger than its scale's range
· Implement RTL mode in GimpSpinScale
· Add lots of tooltips to tool options
· Allow to drop more things to the empty image window, and simply create new images from them
· Cage tool: allow to add handle to the cage when clicking on an edge
· Cage tool: allow to remove selected handles from the cage by hitting delete

Core:

· Add GimpMotionBuffer which abstracts away stroke smoothing behind a simple API and takes it out of GimpDisplayShell
· Add a GimpIdTable utility class
· Add a GimpDockContainer interface

GEGL:

· foo

Libgimp:

· Make libgimp depend on GdkPixbuf
· Add API to create layers from cairo surfaces
· Make it impossible to include individual files from any GIMP library. This was always forbidden and designed so it most probably breaks, but now it reliably breaks using #error.

Plug-ins:

· Use poppler's cairo API to load PDFs, the pixbuf API is removed
· Port screenshot from GdkPixbuf to cairo
· Fix the annoying parser build warnings in imagemap
· Add a check-for-deprecated-procedures-in-script-fu make target
· Update libpng code to not use deprecated API (file-mng and file-png)

Data:

· foo

Developer documentation:

· Many updates

Source and build system:

· Make cairo a global dependency, starting at libgimpcolor
· Require poppler >= 0.12.4

General:

· foo
· Some more undeprecations now that we use GTK+ 2.24
· Fix lots of warnings that are new in -Wall in GCC 4.6
· Lots of bug fixes and cleanup
· Lots of translation updates

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