Archive for July 27th, 2009

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.

While it may not be professionally recognised most in the industry have at one stage used or heard of GIMP.

Our favourite freeware image editing package has had a long life and just keeps getting better. You can either grab the latest version for Windows, both 32-bit and 64-bit edition, from here or from the GIMP site itself.

Be sure to check out GAP, GIMP Animation Package, while you’re there too.

Download GIMP v2.6.6 (32-bit Windows edition)
Download GIMP v2.6.6 (64-bit Windows edition)