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GIMP 2.8 User Manual PDF document. GIMP User Manual. The GIMP Documentation Team, 2000, 2001. The GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is an application suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images. Its capabilities as an image manipulation program make it a worthy competitor to other similar programs such as Adobe PHOTOSHOP or Corel PHOTOPAINT. The biggest advantage of The GIMP is it’s free availability ( e.g. from the Internet, packaged with various Linux distributions, etc ). Even more importantly, it’s not simply freeware. The GIMP is an OSS ( Open Source Software ) program covered by the GPL license, which gives you the freedom to access and also to change the source code that makes up the program. This is how and why GIMP is constantly being developed and improved, not only by it’s core developers, but by a large amount of contributers and users. The GIMP is probably most known for its use on the GNU/Linux platform, but there are many platforms that GIMP can run on. GIMP is known to work on GNU/LINUX, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95, 98, NT4 AND 2000, OPENBSD, NETBSD, FREEBSD, SOLARIS, SUNOS, AIX, HP-UX, TRU64, DIGITAL UNIX, OSF/1, IRIX, OS/2 and BEOS. Porting GIMP to other platforms is possible only due to source code availability. GIMP’s main use is for the creation and editing of bitmap images. This ranges from the touching up of digital photographs to the creation of digital art or the authoring of logos. The word “bitmap” means that GIMP is mainly designed to work on images that are made up of “pixels” – tiny rectangles which each have a single set color. The other common method of handling images is in “vectors”. A vector image is made up of primitives such as lines, curves, circles, rectangles and fills. GIMP has some support for vector drawing in the GFIG plug-in, but it is not a complete editing environment and shouldn’t be used for the creation of complex vector diagrams. GIMP also offers some image editing features, which are mainly useful for creating small animations since the editing is done on a frame-by-frame basis. GIMP supports writing the AVI and GIF animation formats and can also read MPEG videos.
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