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The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 2 By Michael J. Hammel. 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. It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Other ( proprietary ) raster editors include Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro and the humble Microsoft Paint. Most ( if not all ) GNU/Linux distributions will support GIMP through their package management systems and may even come with GIMP preinstalled. You can however download Windows executable versions and Mac OS X packages ( GIMP will only run on Mac OS X, not on version 9 or earlier of the Macintosh operating system ). GIMP borrows its look and feel from the popular Macintosh and Windows program from Adobe called Photoshop. GIMP has all the Adobe Photoshop features. Some of them work better than the same sort of features in Photoshop and also there are some features that Photoshop hasn't got. GIMP is a full featured Graphics tool in its own right. You need to use it regularly to appreciate the possibilities and where it is heading. In the first of this four-part series on the GIMP, we took a quick tour around the GIMP's installation and system requirements. In this article we'll cover a few basics about how the GIMP works, which types are included and how they are used, and a bit about supported file formats. Raster images can be saved in a large variety of formats, each suitable for various functions. The GIMP supports all of the more popular formats such as GIF, TIFF, JPEG, XBM, XPM, PostScript, BMP, and a few lesser-known formats. XCF is GIMP's "native" format. XCF is the format used to save layer information. While you are working on an image, you should periodically save it as an XCF image so that, if necessary, you can load it again in the future with all the layer information intact.
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