GIMP Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The GNU Image Manipulation Program or The GIMP is a bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics. It also has some support for vector graphics. The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers; it is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
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GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program; in 1997, the name was changed to GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is an official part of the GNU project.
The GIMP is popular for processing the digital graphics and photographs displayed on the Internet. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, changing colors, combining images using a layer paradigm, removing unwanted image features and converting between different image formats.
The GIMP is also notable as perhaps the first major open source end-user application. Previous work, such as GCC, the Linux kernel, and so on, were tools by programmers, mainly for programmers. The GIMP is proof that the open source process can create things that non-geeks can use productively, and as such psychologically paved the way for such efforts as KDE, GNOME, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org and various other applications that followed.
Overview
Features
The GIMP was intended as a free (as in speech) alternative to Photoshop, but the latter still dominates the printing and graphics industries:
GIMP uses GTK+ as its widget toolkit (the part of the program that builds the user interface); in fact, GTK+ was initially part of the GIMP, intended as a replacement for the commercial Motif toolkit, which GIMP originally depended upon. GIMP and GTK+ were originally designed for the X Window System running on Unix-like operating systems, but have since been ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, MacOS X and SkyOS.
The current (as of November 2004) stable version of the GIMP is 2.0.6. Major changes compared to version 1.2 include a more polished user interface and further separation of the user interface and back-end. For the future it is planned to base GIMP on a more generic graphical library called GEGL, thereby addressing some fundamental design limitations that prevent many enhancements such as native CMYK support.
Film Gimp/CinePaint
Film Gimp, now known as CinePaint, is a tool specially tailored to paint on and retouch framess of movies, using a frame manager and onion skinning. It also offers greater color depth than the GIMP — 16 bits per color, rather than 8. It was forkeded from GIMP version 1.0.4.
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External links
GIMP Manual and Resources
GIMP Community