GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program

The GIMP is useful for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Some of the capabilities are:

• Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone,etc.
• Tile based memory managent so image size is limited only by available disk space.
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
• Full alpha channel support
• Layers and channels
• A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
• Advanced scripting capabilities
• Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
• Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
• Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool.
• Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format.
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip.
• File formats supported include gif, jpg, png, xpm, tiff, tga, mpeg, ps, pdf, pcx, bmp, and many others.
• Load, display, convert, save to many file formats.
• Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent.
• Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters.
• Over 100 plugins already available.
• Supports custom brushes and patterns
• Much, much more!

GIMP has been installed on the SGI graphics machines and is also on LINUX machines in the CSB.

To get started, simply type:

gimp (or /srv/local/r4k/gimp)

Online documentation is available at www.gimp.org.