GIMP Photo Editor provides the essential tools for high-quality image manipulation. It is a free, open-source software application designed for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition, and digital image creation. From retouching and restoration to creating imaginative composites, the only limit is your creativity.
GIMP gives artists the power and flexibility to transform images into truly unique creations. It is also a high-quality application for producing icons, graphical design elements, and art for user interface components and mockups.
GIMP Photo Editor provides top-notch color management features to ensure high-fidelity color reproduction across digital and printed media. It is best used in workflows involving other free software such as Scribus, Inkscape, and SwatchBooker.
GIMP Photo Editor is a high-quality framework for scripted image manipulation. This application provides extensibility through integration with many programming languages, including Scheme, Python, Perl, and more. The result is a high level of customization as demonstrated by the large number of scripts and plug-ins created by the community.
Customizable Interface
Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Start from the widget theme and change colors, widget spacings, and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modularized into so-called docks. That allows you to stack them into tabs or open them in their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden. GIMP Photo Editor features a great fullscreen mode, which allows you to not only preview your artwork but also do editing work while using most of your screen estate.
Photo Enhancement
Numerous digital photo imperfections you can compensate using GIMP Photo Editor. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply by choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface. The included channel mixer gives you the flexibility and power to get your B/W photography to stand out the way you need.
Digital Retouching
GIMP Photo Editor is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Remove unwanted elements using the Clone Tool or quickly touch up small imperfections with the Healing Tool. The Perspective Clone Tool makes it easy to clone objects with accurate perspective, just like with the standard orthogonal clone.
Hardware Support
GIMP Photo Editor offers built-in support for a variety of input devices, including pressure- and tilt-sensitive tablets, USB controllers, and MIDI devices. You can assign frequently used actions to device events, such as rotating a USB wheel or adjusting a MIDI slider. While painting, change brush size, angle, or opacity in real time, or bind your favorite scripts to custom buttons. These features help streamline your workflow and boost productivity.
Supported File Formats
File format support ranges from many formats like JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, and TIFF to specialized formats, including multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. Furthermore, the architecture allows to extend GIMP’s format capabilities with a plug-in. Also, you can find some rare format support in the GIMP plugin registry.
Thanks to the transparent virtual file system, you can load and save files from remote locations using protocols like FTP, HTTP, SMB (Windows shares), and SFTP/SSH. You can save any format with an archive extension to save disk space. ZIP, GZ, or BZ2 and GIMP will transparently compress the file without you needing to do any extra steps.
GIMP 3.0.4 ChangeLog
Release Notes
GIMP Photo Editor 3.0.0 highlights include:
- Do you need to tweak a filter you applied hours ago? GIMP 3.0 now offers non-destructive editing for most commonly used filters. With an on-canvas preview, you can see the changes in real time.
- Transfer files with more applications, including BC7 DDS files, improved PSD export, and many additional formats.
- Unsure how large to make your drawing? Set your paint tool to expand layers dynamically when needed.
- Creating professional-quality text is now easier. Style your text with outlines, shadows, bevels, and more — while still being able to edit it, change the font and size, and adjust style settings.
- Layer organization is now more convenient, letting you select multiple items simultaneously, move them, or transform them together!
- Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages.
- Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.
- New Wilber logo!
GIMP Photo Editor is a Free, Open-Source, cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows, and more.
