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GIMP
GIMP is an image manipulation software that allows you to retouch photos, compose and author images. 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.
| website | www.gimp.org |
| version | 2.7.5 (14th March 2012) |
| author | Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis |
| Category | Editors, Graphic Editor, Graphics, Multimedia, Raster Graphics Editor |
| License | Freeware, GNU General Public License, GPL, Open Source |
| OS | Amiga OS, BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Solaris, UNIX, Windows, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows all |
| Programming | C |
| Translation | Arabic, Belarusian, Breton, British English, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Framework | GTK+ |
| Status | Active |
Features
- Features: Selection editing, Layers, Histogram, Scripting, Resizing, Retouching, Noise removal, Lens correction, Sized Printing, Sharpening, Color correction, Plugin support
- Color Spaces: sRGB, Indexed, Grayscale, Adobe RGB, HSV
- File Support: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, PSP, XCF, PCX, RAW imports
Screenshots
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Below is the list of shortcut keys on the toolbox:
- A - Airbrush
- B - Paths
- C - Clone
- D - Default Colors
- E - Ellipse Select
- F - Free Select
- I - Scissors
- K - Ink
- L - Blend
- M - Move
- N - Pencil
- O - Color Picker
- P - Paintbrush
- R - Rect Select
- S - Smudge
- T - Text
- U - Fuzzy Select
- V - Convolve
- X - Swap Colors
- Shift+B - Bucket Fill
- Shift+C - Crop and Resize
- Shift+D - Dodge/Burn
- Shift+E - Eraser
- Shift+F - Flip
- Shift+O - Select By Color
- Shift+P - Perspective
- Shift+R - Rotate
- Shift+S - Shear
- Shift+T - Scale
Timeline
- 1996: version 0.54 (first public release)
- 1997: GIMP became a part of the GNU Project
- 1998: version 1.0 (GIMP and GTK+ split into separate projects, new tile based memory management system, introduction of the native file format xcf)
- 2000: version 1.2 (internationalization options, improved installation dialogs, overhauled plug-ins, reduced memory leaks and reorganized menus.)
- 2004: version 2.0 (transition to GTK+ 2.x toolkit)
- 2005: version 2.2
- 2007: version 2.4 (Rewritten selection tools, use of the Tango style guidelines, a foreground selection tool, and support for the ABR brush filetype)
- 2008: version 2.6 (large changes in the UI, free select tool and brush tools)
