GIMP

Software Overview

GIMP, which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a graphics editor used for editing, retouching, and converting images. It is available on Linux, Windows, and Mac platforms.

GIMP is a layer-based image editor that resembles Adobe Photoshop. Like Photoshop, you can use it as an online batch processing system, an image format converter, a mass production image renderer, and a photo retouching tool. GIMP has a full suite of painting tools, such as Airbrush, Pencil, Clone, and Brush. It has editable text layers, effects, filters, transformable paths, quickmask, full alpha channel support, and over 100 plugins that extend its capabilities.

GIMP supports many of the industry-standard image formats, such as JPEG and PNG. The program uses a proprietary file extension (.XCF) but opens and exports to many different graphics files, such as .PSD, .JPG, .PDF, .PNG, .BMP, and .TIFF. You can also create templates from the edits and settings you have for your images to tailor editing more to your preferences.

Summary

GIMP is a very capable image editor. It provides a familiar image-editing interface and offers many of the same capabilities as Adobe Photoshop. It can also open many of the industry-standard file formats. Throw in the fact that GIMP is free, and you have a very attractive image editor.

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.XCFGIMP Image File

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