Application: Gimp
Image Manipulation program
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.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
1 review for Gimp
19th of January 2010 at 11:52:47
First of all I am a novice in photo and picture manipulation and cannot tell if GIMP can do everything a professional would need.
I have previously used Adobe Photoshop in Windows and find GIMP to be just as easy to use and with the same features.
I have not yet found a feature that it didn't have and on top of it all it is free!
These are my typical use cases:
- scaling and resizing images.
- cleaning up a product image by removing background stuff.
- extracting images from PDF.
- changing color of a product.
- cropping images.
- redeye removal and color correction on photos.
- logo and background design.
- buttons and bars design.
There are tons of great tutorials out there.
Full Circle Magazine has published a very elaborate tutorial and Youtube are full of video tutorials.
Thanks to the GIMP team!
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