Image Manipulation Program
August 16, 2008 – 9:30 am
If you want to play around with your photos but don’t want to learn Photoshop. Here is the application that helps you get by easily. GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program ) is a free software on the Internet (beside iPhoto and Picasa) that can manipulate photographs.
…. from GIMP website:
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted …..