GIMP 2.2.12 (Latest Stable Build)

[_DigitaLVampirE_]

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Features and Capabilities

This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features.

* Painting
o Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
o Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
o Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
o Supports custom brushes and patterns
* System
o Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
o Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
* Advanced Manipulation
o Full alpha channel support
o Layers and channels
o Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
o Editable text layers
o Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
o Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
o Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
o Transformable paths, transformable selections.
o Quickmask to paint a selection.
* Extensible
o A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
o Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
o Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
o Over 100 plug-ins already available
* Animation
o Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
o MNG support
o Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
o Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
o Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
* File Handling
o File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
o Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
o SVG path import/export
* Much, much more!

Download:
http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...i586-setup.zip

Mirror:
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GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...18-setup-1.zip

Mirror:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g...1.zip?download

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Screenshots:
http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/wind...creenshot1.png
GIMP in Windows environment

http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/macosx_screenshot1.png
GIMP in Macintosh environment

http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/linux_screenshot2.png
GIMP in Linux environment

[Voyager13b]

DV didn't piont it out directly, but the Gimp is extremely impressive, full featured, and even though it was developed as a Linux app, it is also ported to evil Windows operating systems. In any and all cases, it is FREE. As in speech and beer. It is also pretty awesome, and between the Gimp and the multitude of free plugins available for it, you will not miss the idea of paying for Photoshop.

The Gimp is plain awesome, even if you did have to pay for it, and the internet abounds with tutorials, tips, and hints. Linux Format magazine (from England) has had a running series of Gimp how-to articles for a long time. Back issues are available from their website. Go Gimp......

By the way, when you photo/video artists get a free minute, check out "Blender". It doesn't compete with the Gimp, rather it defines it's own territory. It's worth a look for the hardcore among us.

Voyager