The Malaysia Linux Portal Shop - GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

Introduction to GIMP

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 and Capabilities

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, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy

Foreground extraction tool

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

Much, much more...

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This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 26 November, 2008.

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