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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
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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.