Wednesday, September 2, 2009

EDge21 Freeware Festival - GIMP

Today's highlighted freeware is GIMP, a totally free alternative to Adobe Photoshop®


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

Windows Screenshot

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

Mac OS X Screenshot
GIMP is extensible. It is designed to be supplemented with plug-ins and extensions to do almost anything. The scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Linux Screenshot
GIMP Features:
  • Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
  • powerful gradient editor and blend tool
  • Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
  • Editable text layers
  • Layers and channels
  • 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
  • Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
  • Support for numerous file formats: bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
  • Highly customizable interface
GIMP: Free Alternative to Photoshop, a video from Pollyticks.com



GIMP Frequently Asked Questions



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