

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, and SkyOS. GTK+ was initially part of GIMP, intended as a replacement for the proprietary Motif toolkit, which GIMP originally depended upon.

GIMP uses GTK+ as for building its user interface.
Gimp program software#
GIMP was intended as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, which is the dominant bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries.

Gimp program code#
The Wilber Construction Kit containing lots of images of Wilber is also available in the source code at '/docs/Wilber_Construction_' For simple automatable tasks, a package such as ImageMagick is likely to be quicker, but GIMP has much more powerful features. This allows the writing of scripts and plugins for 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 CGI scripts) and for batch color correction and conversion of images. The built-in Scheme can be used for this, or alternatively Perl, Python, Tcl and (experimentally) Ruby can also be used.
Gimp program plus#

GIMP is also notable to some as the first major free software end-user application. GIMP can also be used to create simple animated images. 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. GIMP can be used to process digital graphics and photographs. In 1997, after both Kimball and Mattis had graduated from Berkeley, the name was changed to GNU Image Manipulation Program when it became an official GNU project. Both were integral members of eXperimental Computing Facility, a student club at Berkeley (the GIMP's file extension, XCF, is taken from the initials of this club). Its creators, Spencer Kimball and Petter Mattis, initially started GIMP as a semester-long project for a class at UC Berkeley. GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program.
Gimp program mac os x#
4 Comparisons with other graphics editorsĪ screenshot of GIMP version 2.2.8 running under X11 on Mac OS X.2.1 Brushes, colors, and painting tools.
