GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program or The GIMP is a bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics. It also has some support for vector graphics. The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers; it is licensed under the GNU General Public License. ==Overview== GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program; in 1997, the name was changed to GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is an official part of the GNU project. The GIMP can be used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, changing colors, combining images using a layer paradigm, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. The GIMP can also be used to create simple animated images. The GIMP is also notable as perhaps the first major free software end-user application. Previous work, such as GNU Compiler Collection, the Linux kernel, and so on, were mainly tools by programmers for programmers. The GIMP is considered by some to be proof that the free software development process can create things non-geeks can use productively, and as such psychologically paved the way for such efforts as KDE, GNOME, Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and various other applications that followed. ==Features== The GIMP was intended as a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop, but the latter still dominates the printing and graphics industries: *Photoshop includes licensed support for the Pantone color space. *The number of plugins and other add-ons available for Photoshop is larger. *GIMP has only experimental CMYK separation support[http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml]. *GIMP has almost no spot color support. *GIMP has limited Gamma_correction. *GIMP has limited color management through LittleCMS[http://www.littlecms.com/] There is a plugin called PSPI for the Microsoft Windows version of the GIMP only, which allows the use of the 8bf Adobe Photoshop filters in the GIMP. As well as interactive use, the GIMP can be automated with macro programs. The built-in Scheme programming language can be used for this, or alternatively Perl, Python programming language, Tcl and (experimentally) Ruby programming language can also be used. This allows the writing of scripts and plugins for the GIMP which can then be used interactively; it is also possible to produce images in completely non-interactive ways (for example generating images for a webpage on the fly using Common Gateway Interface scripts) and for batch processing color correction and conversion of images. For simpler automatable tasks, a package such as ImageMagick is likely to be quicker, but the GIMP has much more powerful features. GIMP uses GTK+ as its widget (computing) toolkit (the part of the program that builds the user interface); in fact, GTK+ was initially part of the GIMP, intended as a replacement for the commercial Motif toolkit, which GIMP originally depended upon. GIMP and GTK+ were originally designed for the X Window System running on Unix-like operating systems, but have since been ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Mac OS X and SkyOS. The current (as of May 2005) stable version of the GIMP is 2.2.7. Major changes compared to version 1.2 include a more polished user interface and further separation of the user interface and back-end. For the future it is planned to base GIMP on a more generic graphical library called GEGL, thereby addressing some fundamental design limitations that prevent many enhancements such as native CMYK support. The GIMP's mascot is called Wilber, drawn with the GIMP itself. ==GIMP for Windows== The GIMP (along with the GTK+ toolkit) has been ported to the Microsoft Windows platform by Finnish programmer [http://www.saunalahti.fi/tlillqvi/ Tor "tml" Lillqvist], who started that project in 1997. Currently, the Windows port is practically identical to the original version in terms of features and stability. The installation has been tremendously eased with the introduction of the [http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ binary installers] compiled by [http://sourceforge.net/users/jernejs/ Jernej Simoncic]. GIMP can be difficult to use on Windows because of the number of windows it uses (toolbox, colours, brushes, one for each image...). Without Unix-style focusing, or multiple virtual desktops (which are only available on the Windows platform by installing special add-ons), the windows are difficult to move between. For this reason, some users prefer the Adobe Photoshop-style layout of a single window for everything by adopting the [http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892 GIMP Deweirdifyer plugin][http://gug.sunsite.dk/forum/?threadid=1630] (although that doesn't work as well on multiple-monitor setups). ==Film Gimp/CinePaint== Film Gimp, now known as CinePaint, is a tool specially tailored to paint on and retouch frame (film)s of movies, using a frame manager and onion skinning. It also offers greater color depth than the GIMP — 32 bits (floating point) per channel, rather than 8. It was fork (software)ed from GIMP version 1.0.4. ==See also== *Wilber *Color management *List of GNU packages *List of Unix programs *List of bitmap graphics editors *Comparison of bitmap graphics editors *GIMPshop ==External links== ===Official=== *[http://www.gimp.org/ The GIMP's official website] *[http://registry.gimp.org/ GIMP Plug-In Registry] *[http://developer.gimp.org/ GIMP Developer Resources] *[http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/OpenOfficeConvertion#preview Gimp and OpenOffice Draw]. ===Third-parties=== *[http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ GIMP for Windows] *[http://www.wingimp.org/ alt.pg. WinGIMP] *[http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241 GIMPshop for Mac OS X and Linux] *[http://www.linuxartist.org/gimp.html Linuxartist: Gimp section] ===GIMP Manual and Resources=== *[http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/FrontPage ''Wilber's Wiki'' – The GIMP Wiki] *[http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html ''Grokking the GIMP'', by Carey Bunks] – free 'HTML book' about the GIMP and digital photo editing in general *[http://manual.gimp.org/ ''GIMP - The Official Handbook'', by Olof S. Kylander, Karin Kylander] *[http://docs.gimp.org GIMP User Manual 2.0] (still under development) *[http://jimmac.musichall.cz/gimp2demos.php Short video clips demonstrating GIMP's functionality] *[http://gimps.de A lot of examples and tutorials for Gimp in German] ** Good website to see the capabilities of Gimp. *[http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml Experimental CMYK support through the "separate" plugin] *[http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892 Windows GIMP Deweirdifyer plugin] ([http://gug.sunsite.dk/forum/?threadid=1630 info at GUG]) ** It is used for organizaing GIMP panels in a single window under Microsoft Windows *[http://epierce.freeshell.org/gimp/ Photoshop-ish Keyboard Shortcuts for The Gimp 2.0] * WLUG Wiki: [http://www.wlug.org.nz/GimpVersusPhotoshop GimpVersusPhotoshop] * Wikipedia:How to use the GIMP ===GIMP Community=== *[http://gug.sunsite.dk/ GIMP User Group website] *[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-users/ GIMP for Windows user mailing list] ([http://www.spinics.net/lists/gimpwin/ Read-only archive]) Bitmap graphics editors Technical communication tools GNU project software GNOME Free Linux software Free Mac OS software Free Windows software

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==Industry dominance== Intended as a free replacement for Photoshop, the GIMP has not challenged that program's industry dominance in the print world, perhaps for any of the following reasons: * the professional preprocessing of print graphics is hindered by the GIMP project's inability to license the patents on industry-standard color mapping schemes This is very weird statement. With exception of one country there are no software patents in the world, so if this was the real reason, it would be widely used in Europe, and I don't see it being much more popular in Europe than in USA. User:Taw 12:14 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC) Which country would that be? There are no software patents in the US, but a judge has upheld a patent on software granted by the US patent office. Similarly, the patent offices in Europe and Japan grant patents on software, whether these can be upheld or not. User:Branko The whole "free replacement" paragraph looks bias. There are two speculative points I'm going to remove now: * Some say the support of digital tablets .. is superior in Photoshop. Some say ...? * Many people are doubtful of .. free software. I tend to disagree. User:nikai ==151.x.x.x== Hello 151.148.136.103, here's why I reverted the following two of your changes: 1. You changed ''The GIMP is quite popular [...]'' into ''Because it is free and cross-platform, The GIMP is quite popular [...]'' Have you got any proof, for instance based on polls, that this is why the GIMP is popular? 2. ''Unlike most other similar programs, GIMP can be controlled by writing a program, not just interactively. A Scheme programming language interpreter is built in, but Perl programming language, Python programming language, Tcl and (experimentally) Ruby programming language can also be used.'' became ''Many other programs can do batch processing of files, but The GIMP excels by providing not just a Scheme programming language interpreter built in, but Perl programming language, Python programming language, Tcl and (experimentally) Ruby programming language extensions.'' First, I don't like the word 'excels', because it is a qualitative statement. Although I don't mind such statements in an encyclopedia per se, they need to be used when you can be sure that a lot of people will agree. (Or when you want to be provocative, but in a collaborative encyclopedia you can then be sure that your text will be changed. Second, script-fu is for automating anything that can be done with GIMP functions. This is not just batch processing, as a matter of fact I would say batch processing is only a small part of the tasks script-fu and the other scripting extensions are used for. The old text mentioned the batch processing, your version did not mention all the other tasks that can be automated. Third, I don't agree with your suggestion that the GIMP is the best tool for batch processing, and others with me. If you will check the GIMP newsgroup or the GIMP IRC channel, you will discover that a lot of the times when people ask 'how do I script this so that I can batch process it', the answer is 'don't bother, use ImageMagick/IrfanView/what have you'. Apparently, for a lot of tasks these tools are better than the GIMP for batch processing.--user:Branko ---- I am 151.x.x.x; 1. I don't object to the first change. You are correct that I have no polls to indicate this is why. I don't even have any proof that it is popular at all, considering how subjective that word is. It's certainly _not_ popular on Windows. It does seem to be popular on Unix, but thats a small chunk the of the graphic design world. 2. I was elaborating on the previous batch processing content. I'm sorry I didn't add more on other script-fu uses. I use it for batch processing. I do not use it for generating dynamic web page graphics, etc. Someone who does can feel free to write about it. Omission is in the nature of this project. If I eliminated a comment hinting that it can be used for more than batch processing, I apologize. I was comparing The GIMP to other "image editing" programs (not batch processing progs), I'm sorry I didn't make that clear. I'm sure that programs written specifically for batch processing are much better at batch processing. But again, they are really not, as those programs you mentioned really don't have the abilities of The GIMP, maybe 10%. I still feel that The GIMP is excels at this (I also don't feel this means it is the "best", but is really good) because it offers far more image manipulation features, not the least of which is extensive layer handling. It may be easier to automate certain tasks in other programs, but The GIMP is more flexible and comprehensive. By the way, I resent the implication I was trying to be provacative. : I am sorry if I suggested you were. With (1) I felt you were not being factual, with (2) I felt you were a) removing important information about the nature of Script-fu and b) were misrepresenting the importance and role of the GIMP in batch-editing raster images.--user:Branko I hope I didn't come across as liking The GIMP too much, because I really don't. The interface sucks--it's terrible. It doesn't have the wide range of plugins available on Photoshop. I only like the fact that it can be automated on my Linux server, doing batch processing of files outside of photoshop. I do a bit of digital art--digital art pad support in The GIMP is substandard. (disclaimer: its been a long time since I tried this, The GIMP may have substantially improved since then). I think I would be hard pressed to see any digital artists switching from Photoshop (or Painter) to The GIMP. It's really no substitute for Photoshop. I've avoided writing this in the article thus far because though it is a fact, but is provacative with many people that bluntly, don't understand everything that Photoshop does. Print work is the biggest part of what Photoshop is good for (indeed, web based work or paletted graphics are weak in photoshop) and the GIMP has _no_ claim against photoshop in that area. I've but minimal formal training in the graphic design world, having changed my Major after a year and a half to something I liked more, programming. I do however maintain friendship with several others who do now work professionally. I was talking about the GIMP to one of them, a newspaper man--when I mentioned The GIMP had no CMYK support, he laughed out loud. He might enjoy his job more not having to deal with CMYK plates and color matching errors, but he would be far, far less productive. What I'm saying is that I didn't really perceive my statements as non-NPOV, because I don't even like the program, though I use it. You sound like you work with it more, and I defer to your changes. Incidentally, what server is this IRC chat room on? I actually would like to try using my artpad in it again, and wonder what the support is like now (the The GIMP FAQ maintainers don't know). :Let me give some background too, then. I am not an artist, but I am a GIMP-contributor. I show my face in a lot of GIMP forums (the newsgroup, the developers' mailing list, the IRC channel, the GUG's forums, the GIMPI mailing list), and my experience is that almost without fail people, including the core developers and power users, refer others to software like Image Magick and Irfanview when these others want to do batch processing. :Granted, the latter tools are much less verstatile than the GIMP, but for the actual purposes we get questions about they are more than adequate (file type conversion, image scaling, adding captions, etc.). The extra functions of the GIMP are mainly usable in an interactive environment. You cannot batch-retouch photos, for instance, you have to do that manually. :The IRC-channel can be reached at irc.gimp.org (port 6667). Search the GIMP news group (news:comp.graphics.apps.gimp) on http://groups.google.com for the make of graphics pad, perhaps someone else had the same problem. :Good luck and thank you for your extensive answer.--user:Branko ------ I'm a photographer and I've just downloaded gimp and install it. I agree that one of the reasons GIMP is not a professional tool like Photoshop, is that photoshop can do accurate color management for print (press) work. Gimp is very good to develop web photos and personal prints, not for press work. It needs good ICC profile color management (CMYK, RGB, LAB), pantone integration and a monitor calibration tool like Adobe Gamma. ==Thanks to all those who work on GIMP== I downloaded the programme yesterday, with some trepidation: I still use Win98 which is not supported by GIMP 2. And I am so impressed by it. I don't do graphics in a professional capacity, so I'm just using it for graphics for my website. And I really love it. And it's so wonderful to have it here on my machine with no trial period countdown or limited functionality. So, in short, thanks to all involved. I'll be trying to write more directly to those at the head of the project to thank them too. --bodnotbod\">User:Bodnotbod_�_.....TALKQuietly)\">User_talk:Bodnotbod">User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod\">User:Bodnotbod � .....TALKQuietly)\">User talk:Bodnotbod 12:24, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC) Hi all -- it would be nice of someone would add a release history listing the month and year of the release of each major stable version (1.0, 1.2, 2.0, 2.2). Thanks, and sorry if this is in the wrong section. == Question == Yo people I have a question which one of Gimp / Paint Shop Pro is better to remove white pixels on a night photo and also to increase the level of details? I have to play with this picture and remove those noisy pixels. http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/dhamelin/cps621/labs/oregon.jpg ***Xhamlliku :GIMP will do that just fine. User:Ojw 20:46, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::Looking at that image, though, I think you'll have your work cut out.-User:Ashley Pomeroy 09:37, 17 May 2005 (UTC) == Categories == Regarding the GNOME category, (and ignoring whether we should put a category for ''every'' operating system it runs on...) is it true to say that GIMP is part of GNOME? GIMP uses GTK+, and the windows installer requires GTK+ for windows. GNOME also uses GTK+ ("Gimp ToolKit"). But GIMP doesn't require GNOME. User:Ojw 20:46, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Gimp is a word meaning a ''a lame person,'' ''a lame leg'' or a ''limp,'' perhaps by association with the word ''limp''. It is also used as a verb meaning ''to limp.'' It can also mean: *GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program *Gimp (sadomasochism) - A sadomasochistic term *Gimp (band) - The New Jersey punk band *Gimp (thread) - A thick thread *See also: Gimp-Print

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