GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.
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17 Facts About GIMP
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The development of the GIMP ToolKit has been attributed to Peter Mattis becoming disenchanted with the Motif toolkit GIMP originally used.
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Version number used in GIMP is expressed in a major-minor-micro format, with each number carrying a specific meaning: the first number is incremented only for major developments .
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Previously, GIMP applied for several positions in the Google Summer of Code .
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GIMP began to host its own downloads after discontinuing use of SourceForge in 2013.
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GIMP has similar functionality to Photoshop, but has a different user interface.
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Courtney explains GIMP is a powerful tool, fully capable of large professional projects, such as video games.
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Cardinal favorably described the UFRaw converter for raw images used with GIMP, noting that it still "requires some patience to figure out how to use those more advanced capabilities".
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Cardinal stated that GIMP is "easy enough to try" despite not having as well developed documentation and help system as those for Photoshop, concluding that it "has become a worthy alternative to Photoshop for anyone on a budget who doesn't need all of Photoshop's vast feature set".
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GIMP has native support for indexed colour and RGB color spaces; other color spaces are supported using decomposition, where each channel of the new color space becomes a black-and-white image.
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GIMP provides "smart" tools that use a more complex algorithm to do things that otherwise would be time-consuming or impossible.
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The user manual suggests that "A good way to visualize a GIMP image is as a stack of transparencies, " where in GIMP terminology, each level is called a layer.
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GIMP has approximately 150 standard effects and filters, including Drop Shadow, Blur, Motion Blur and Noise.
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GIMP can be scripted in Perl, Python, or Tcl, using interpreters external to GIMP.
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GIMP-ML is an extension for machine learning with 15 filters.
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When GEGL is fully integrated, GIMP will have a higher color bit depth and better non-destructive work-flow.
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