When you launch the GIMP, a Toolbox that looks and works in much the same way as Photoshop's is displayed (seeįigure 1).

In fact, if you're familiar with Photoshop, you'll quickly adjust to the GIMP's GUI, as it seems to have been based upon Photoshop's. The GIMP provides a significant number of features that are comparable to commercial applications like Photoshop. Because of the potential difficulties involved, I recommend that you study the online manual and the Installation help files before attempting to download the code You can download the binary code for most of the available platforms at the GIMP's home page, but depending on your expertise and your OS, you may run into installation pitfalls. The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) The downloaded program runs on a wide variety of Unix platforms including Linuxeven a Windows version exists. The dedicated work of hundreds of developers has molded the GIMP into a complete graphics editor.īecause the software was released under the GNU Public License, you can always obtain the source code, which is constantly being updated, without charge (see '

After they finished their CS164 compilers course and released the software under the GNU Public License, programmers from around the world started adding features, fixing problems, and improving the software's overall quality. The GIMP began as a school project for two students, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, at the University of California at Berkeley.

If you've worked with Adobe Photoshop, you'll definitely be impressed by the GIMP's features. Shortened to simply 'the GIMP,' there's a general consensus that it's the firstand perhaps most successfulproductivity application ever developed under a free software licensing arrangement. (or GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and robust program for image manipulation that runs on a variety of platforms. CD Home < Web Techniques < 2001 < January

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