The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. The Gimp works on many operating systems, in many languages. 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.
Features:
� Full suite of painting tools
� Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
� Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
� Supports custom brushes and patterns
� Full alpha channel support
� Layers and channels
� Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
� Editable text layers
� Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
� Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
� Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
� Transformable paths, transformable selections.
� Quickmask to paint a selection.
