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GIMP
The GIMP icon - gnome.svg
GIMP 2.8.png
GIMP 2.8
Developer(s) GIMP Development Team
Initial release 1995
Stable release
2.10.4 / July 4, 2018
Written in C
Platform Cross-platform
Available in Multilingual
Type Raster graphics editor
License GNU General Public License
Gimp gradients
Gradients dialog in GNOME

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a free software picture maker.

It is often used for making logos, making photographs bigger or smaller, changing colours, making many pictures part of one picture, making pictures nicer to look at, and changing file formats.

GIMP is often used as a free software alternative for the most popular Adobe Photoshop, but it is not made to be an Adobe Photoshop clone. GIMPs mascot is named Wilber.

GIMP was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now taken care of by a group of volunteers as part of the GNU Project. The newest version of GIMP is v.2.8 and it was available since March 2009. GIMPs license is the GNU General Public License, so GIMP is free software.

File types

GIMP can be used for opening and changing many types of file formats. GIMPs own file format is XCF, which is the name of the building where GIMP was written.

Some file formats that GIMP can be used with are bitmap, JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF. GIMP can also read and write path information from SVG files and GIMP can read Adobe PDF files and the raw image formats used by digital cameras, but cannot write to these formats.

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See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: GIMP para niños

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