GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a raster graphics editor. The new GIMP 2.10.8 has just been released, it is available for all known platforms (download links at the end of the post) and you can download it for free.
GIMP is a multi-functional photo editing tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Editing Program. GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo editing, compositing, and image construction .
GIMP live batch editing system, a mass-produced image renderer, an image type converter, etc.
GIMP scalable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plugins and extensions to do almost anything. The advanced scripting interface allows anything from the simplest task to the most complex image editing processes to be easily scripted.
One of the strengths of GIMP is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Most GNU Linux distributions include GIMP as a standard application. GIMP is also available for other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Apple's Mac OS X ( Darwin ).
GIMP application covered by the General Public License [GPL]. The GPL gives users the freedom to access and modify the source code that makes up computer programs.
The first version of GIMP was written by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball. Many other developers have contributed recently, and thousands more have provided support and review. GIMP releases are currently orchestrated by Sven Neumann and Mitch Natterer and the other members of the GIMP team .
The following list is a small overview of some of the features and capabilities that GIMP:
- A full set of painting tools including brushes, pencil, airbrush, cloning, etc
- Tile-based memory management, so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Subpixel sampling for all painting tools for high-quality smoothing
- Full alpha channel support for working with transparency
- Layers and channels
- A procedural database for calling internal GIMP from external programs, such as Script-Fu
- Advanced scripting capabilities
- Multiple undos/undos (limited only by disk space)
- Transformation tools including rotation, scaling, warping, and flipping
- Support for a wide range of file formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many more
- Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free selection fuzzy bezier selection and smart scissors
- Plugins that allow easy addition of new file types and new effect filters.
GIMP 2.10.10
Linux: 2.10.10.tar.bz2
