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Submitted by sailfrog on 2006-06-12 Update by ozar on 2009-08-13
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.
This piece of software is really great! As they say, it is not a Photoshop killer but there are so many sites, the design of which is made entirely with the GIMP that I can't help but recommend it as a nice and powerful design tool. It has enough features, and they are working, so it is a real open source alternative.
Submitted by sailfrog on 2006-06-15 for Version 2.3.9
I love this Gimp. It may not be photoshop but it is very powerful and can do some really great things.
Submitted by vigol on 2008-07-02 for Version 2.4.6
Easy to use and better thatn PhotoShop.
But there's a problem : WBMP