GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP ( ; always stylized in capitals; formerly, The GIMP), is a free and open-source raster graphics editor.

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GIMP is a free, open-source program that lets you edit digital images and create graphics, similar to professional software like Photoshop but available at no cost. It matters because it provides powerful image-editing tools to anyone with a computer, regardless of their ability to pay for expensive commercial alternatives.

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Software.language: Amharic, Arabic, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, British English, Bulgarian, Burmese, Canadian English, Catalan, Central Kurdish, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Kannada, Kashubian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Kirghiz, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic script), Serbian (Latin script), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Valencian, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yiddish
Software.genre: Raster graphics editor
Software.license: GPL-3.0-or-later
Software.name: GNU Image Manipulation Program
Software.logo: The GIMP icon - v3.0.svg
Software.screenshot: GIMP-3.png
Software.caption: GIMP version 3.0
Software.author: Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis
Software.developer: GIMP Development Team
Software.programming language: C, C++, Python, Scheme
Software.operating system: Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AmigaOS 4
Software.language count: 82

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Instance of: free and open-source software
Named after: GNU Project
Creator: Spencer Kimball
Developer: The GNOME Project
Platform: Microsoft Windows
Official website: gimp.org
Image: GIMP-3.png
Has use: editing

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operating system: macOS
IRC channel URL: irc://irc.gimp.org/#gimp-fr
GUI toolkit or framework: GTK
issue tracker URL: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues
source code repository URL: github.com/GNOME/gimp
programmed in: C
readable file format: JPEG XL
Commons category: GIMP
Commons gallery: GIMP
software version identifier: 3.2.4
inception: 1995-07-29
mascot: Wilber
publication date: 1995-11-21
Stack Exchange tag: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/tags/gimp
topic's main category: Category:GIMP
user manual URL: www.gimp.org/docs
Alexa rank: 8729
language of work or name: Greek
software quality assurance: continuous integration
social media followers: 9829
described at URL: marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/xPqq58
web feed URL: www.gimp.org/feeds/atom.xml

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History
Mascot
Development
Distribution
Features
Color
Selections and paths
Image editing
Layers, layer masks and channels
Automation, scripts and plug-ins
GEGL
CTX
File formats
Professional reviews
Versions
Forks and derivatives
Forks
Extensions
See also
References
Further reading
External links

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP ( ; always stylized in capitals; formerly, The GIMP), is a free and open-source raster graphics editor.

It is commonly used for photo retouching, image editing, free-hand drawing, and converting between different image file formats.

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