The GIMP is a multiplatform photo and image editing, retouching and picture authoring program. Its name comes from GNU Picture Manipulation Software. That means it's free software.
The program is very complex. It is useful as a convenient paint software, a professional quality photo retouching software, a batch processing system, a mass production picture renderer, an image converter, and so on.
GIMP's capabilities can extended easily. You can augment its power with plug-ins and extensions such as for new file types or new effect filters. The good scripting user interface facilitates all tasks from the simplest to the most advanced image editing procedure.
Installing GIMP on your computer is simple but it will not run if you do not install GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment. If you know how Photoshop works then Gimp help files are almost useless.
It comes with a full set of tools for painting e.g. brushes, pencil, airbrush, cloning, and so on, layers and channels, full Alpha channel support, sub-pixel paint sampling,
tile-based memory management so picture size is limited only by offered disk space for anti-aliasing, transformation e.g. rotate, scale, shear and flip, selection options - rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier.
Among the image types accepted are: GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PCX, as well as XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, and so on.
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