GIMP
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| Developer: | The GIMP Development Team |
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| Initial release: | 1995 |
| Latest release: | 2.4.5 / March 1, 2008 |
| Preview release: | 2.5 / April 10, 2008 |
| Platform: | Cross-platform |
| Available language(s): | Multilingual[1] |
| Use: | Raster graphics editor |
| License: | GNU General Public License |
| Website: | www.gimp.org |
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP or "The GIMP", is a free software graphics editor.
It is often used for creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats.
It is often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone. The project's mascot is a coyote named Wilber.
The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers as part of the GNU Project. The latest version of GIMP, v.2.4.3, was released in December, 2007. Available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, GIMP is free software.
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GIMP has support for opening and saving to a large number of different file formats. Its native format is XCF, named after the computing facility where GIMP was written.
GIMP has read/write support for popular image formats such as bitmap, JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF, GIMP can also read and write path information from SVG files and can import Adobe PDF documents and the raw image formats used by many digital cameras, but cannot save to these formats.
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