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.

Features:
· 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
- Virtuallya 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 and more.

 

· Fixed – Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4
· Fixed – unit and zoom entries in Statusbar not visible
· Fixed – Cannot build GIMP using Sun CC on Solaris 2.8
· Fixed – projection incorrect with alpha-less layers
· Fixed – Zoom region always zooms in center of image
· Fixed – "Qmask" message popping up here and there
· Fixed – compatibility with GEGL > 0.0.20
· Fixed – Scaling gives 'jagged' edges
· Fixed – Zoom drop down doesn't update
· Fixed – Print not to scale
· Fixed – gimp crashes when a file is opened while a preview is generating
· Fixed – Alpha layer automatically added (in psd format)
· Fixed – Could you please explain a few strings [I18N]
· Fixed – build fails if configured with --without-libjpeg
· Fixed – Curves tool doesn't save free curves

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