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The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. It is often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone. The project's mascot is named Wilber.The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers under the auspices of the GNU Project. The latest version of GIMP, v. 2.4.4, was released in January 2008. Available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, GIMP is free software.
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- LICENSE: gnu general public license (gpl)
- PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: C
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Add a Review Get answers and share your expertise.By microhoo on March 3rd 2008 at 05:48 AM
You can actually do away with Photoshop!
Awesome and goes toe-to-toe with photoshop on all the major features. Download it and start playing - there's a good chance you will stop paying for Photoshop!
Also the support is spectacular - having an issue post it on the Gimp forums in Sourceforge and you'll probably get a COMPREHENSIVE response in a couple of hours...
By davidp on April 9th 2008 at 02:22 PM
Mac users: Avoid Seashore and get GIMP
If you're a Mac user and want an OSS alternative to Photoshop, don't even waste your time with Seashore. Go ahead and get GIMP (requires X11). It's exponentially better. It also fares well compared to Photoshop, though it's hard to beat Photoshop.
By abhinavbakshi@odesk.com on April 23rd 2008 at 08:56 PM
Nice multimedia application
It was nice to play with gimp, but I am BIG fan of Photoshop. Yes, the features are same & its very easy to use if we compare this with Photoshop.
For personal use, the Gimp will do everything you need it to do and more. However, if you need a bitmap editor so you can create or edit images for commercial printing, you don't want the Gimp, you want Photoshop as the Gimp lacks most of the required commercial features.
By rpgonda on April 30th 2008 at 06:53 PM
learning curve.
photoshop users will not be able to just "jump" right into this one. there is a marked learning curve since the interface is actually quite different - gimps multi-window system could have you scratching your head so set aside some time to run through the tuturials. a caveat: i haven't tried the latest version so this applies to 2.40
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