The Gimp Unstable 2.4.4 Final

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as image composition, photo retouching and image authoring. It works on a lot of operating systems, in a lot of languages. 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 a lot of 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 maked to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface permit everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be smoothly scripted. Here are some key pluses of Gimp : Painting - Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc. - Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing - Extremely capable gradient editor and blend tool - Supports custom brushes and patterns System - Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space - Virtually unlimited number of photos open at one time Advanced Manipulation - Full alpha channel support - Layers and channels - Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace) - Editable text layers - Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip - Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent - Advanced path instrument doing bezier and polygonal selections. - Transformable paths, transformable selections. - Quickmask to paint a selection. Extensible - A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP features from external programs as in Script-fu - Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)