GIMP
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program

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 many operating systems, in many 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 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

Here
are some key features 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 powerful 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 images 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 tool doing bezier and polygonal selections
Transformable paths, transformable selections
Quickmask to paint a selection

Extensible

A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from
external programs as in Script-fu
Advanced scripting capabilities Scheme, Python, Perl
Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new
effect filters
Over 100 plug-ins already available

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

File Handling

File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps,
psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
SVG path import/export


What's New in This Release

Further improvement to the Print plug-in
Completed the color management functionality for 24
Store JPEG setting with the image and use them when saving as JPEG
Further improved the rectangle tools, in particular handling of the fixed aspect ratio
Added color profile selector widget
Further improved the display quality for zoomed-out views