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What is the GIMP
The GIMP is the GNU Image
Manipulation Program. It
is a freely distributed
piece of software suitable
for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition
and image authoring. This
site contains information
about downloading, installing,
using, and enhancing GIMP.
This site also serves as
a distribution point for
the latest releases, patches,
plugins, and scripts. We
also try to provide as much
information about the GIMP
community and related projects
as possible.
"[The GIMP is a]
robust, powerful program
for painting, image processing,
and manipulating pictures.
If you enjoy using Adobe's
Photoshop program, you'll
love the GIMP."
Features and Capabilities
This is only a very quickly
thrown together list of
GIMP features. This is only
the tip of the iceberg.
Full suite of painting
tools including Brush, Pencil,
Airbrush, Clone,etc.
Tile based memory managent
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
Layers and channels
A Procedural Database
for calling internal GIMP
functions from external
programs as in Script-fu
Advanced scripting capabilities
Multiple Undo/Redo (limited
only by diskspace)
Virtually unlimited number
of images open at one time
Extremely powerful gradient
editor and blend tool.
Load and save animations
in a convenient frame-as-layer
format.
Transformation tools
including rotate, scale,
shear and flip.
File formats supported
include gif, jpg, png, xpm,
tiff, tga, mpeg, ps, pdf,
pcx, bmp, and many others.
Load, display, convert,
save to many file formats.
Selection tools including
rectangle, ellipse, free,
fuzzy, bezier and intelligent.
Plug-ins which allow
for the easy addition of
new file formats and new
effect filters.
Over 100 plugins already
available.
Supports custom brushes
and patterns
Much, much more!
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