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Sunday, 27 November 2005

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It offers a ton of features, including advanced layer support, masks, filters, effects and many other features found in professional graphics programs.

It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. 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, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, 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.

Some features:

- 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 powerful gradient editor and blend tool
? Supports custom brushes and patterns

-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 tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
? Transformable paths, transformable selections.
? Quickmask to paint a selection.

-Animation
? Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
? MNG support
? Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
? Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
? Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

Requirements: Any Windows OS + GTK Windows Environment (Download it Here)

Type: Freeware

Publisher: GIMP

Download: Here

Version: 2.2.9 Stable

Note: You must install Free "GTK+2 environment" before installing the GIMP.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 27 November 2005 )
 
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