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, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy Foreground extraction tool Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections Transformable paths, transformable selections Quickmask to paint a selection.System: Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time.Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool Supports custom brushes and patterns Painting: Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features:
But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. 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. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program.
The GIMP Website, has a very good introduction to GIMP:
GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This section provides a quick introduction of GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). ∟Introduction to GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) Windows Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples
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