What is GIMP ?
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is an open source free program that used for manipulating multi-platform photograph such as photoshop. The GIMP is appropriate for a variety of image handling tasks, including photograph retouching, image composition, and image building. GIMP can be used as a simple paint software, an high quality photo retouching software, an online batch processing system, an image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
One of The GIMP’s strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Supported OS platforms by GIMP are
- GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)\
- Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)
- Mac OS X
- Sun OpenSolaris
- FreeBSD
The GIMP Features
Here’re the list of GIMP’s features and capabilities :
- Complete painting tools such as brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
- Tile-based memory management, so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
- Full Alpha channel support for working with transparency
- Layers and channels
- A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
- Advanced scripting capabilities
- Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Support for a wide range of file formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
- Selection tools, including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent scissors
- Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
Ready to use GIMP ?
First ,you must download it at GIMP download page. Don’t worry it’s totally free !!!
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