Thursday, March 10, 2011

GIMP


GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulator Program. GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities: simple paint program, expert quality, photo retouching program, online batch processing system, image format converter... GIMP is both expandable and extendable. It is designed to be able to do almost anything, simple tasks and complex ones.

GIMP was developed for UNIX platforms but it also serves for Windows and Mac OSX.

Features:

Painting: Great variety if painting tools, samplings

System: image size limited by the available disk space, an unlimited number of virtual images
Advanced Manipulation: layers and channels, tools...

Extensible: advances scripting capabilities, a procedural database, plug-ins...

Animation: load and save animations, MNG support, Frame Navigator, Onion Skin, Bluebox

File Handling: load, display, convert and save files in many different formats
www.gimp.org link to gimp

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