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GIMP 2.6.7, the Most Popular Freeware Graphic Editor

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riva11
October 9th, 2009
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GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. A great developers and users community is also available for support and helps on many forums. See also documentation in several languages on GIMP Documentation

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Features and Capabilities :

Painting

- Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
- Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
- Supports custom brushes and patterns

System

- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time

Advanced Manipulation
- Full alpha channel support
- Layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by disk space)
- Editable text layers
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
- Foreground extraction tool
- Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
- Transformable paths, transformable selections.
- Quickmask to paint a selection.

Extensible
- A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
- Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
- Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
- Over 100 plug-ins already available

Animation
- Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
- MNG support
- Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

File Handling
- File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
- Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
- SVG path import/export

License: Free , released under the GNU General Public License.

VSA Exclusions : Desktop and My documents folder.

How to install:

  • Unzip the GIMP 2.6.7 ZIP file
  • Import the GIMP 2.6.7.vsa file

Read more information about GIMP: GIMP.org   http://www.gimp.org/

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