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The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction. 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. . Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
. Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
. Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
. Full Alpha channel support
. Layers and channels
. A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
. Advanced scripting capabilities
. Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
. File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
. Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
. Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
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