GNU Image Manipulation Program
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GIMP 2.8 in single window mode on Ubuntu.
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| Original author(s) | Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis |
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| Developer(s) | The GIMP Development Team |
| Stable release | 2.8.22 (May 11, 2017) |
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2.9.4 / July 13, 2016
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| Repository | git |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C, GTK+ |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, BSD, Solaris, AmigaOS 4 |
| Size | 85.4 MB by 2.8.22 on Microsoft Windows (2.9.4: 73.8 MB) |
| Available in | Most major languages |
| Type | Raster graphics editor |
| License | GNU GPL v3+ |
| Alexa rank |  7,462 (July 2016) |
| Website | www |
GIMP (pronunciation: /ɡɪmp/ GHIMP) (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
GIMP is released under GPLv3+ licenses and is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
GIMP was originally released as the General Image Manipulation Program. In 1995 Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis began developing GIMP as a semester-long project at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1996 GIMP (0.54) was released as the first publicly available release. In the following year Richard Stallman visited UC Berkeley where Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis asked if they could change General to GNU (the name given to the operating system created by Stallman). Richard Stallman approved and the definition of the acronym GIMP was changed to be the GNU Image Manipulation Program. This reflected its new existence as being developed as Free Software as a part of the GNU Project.
The number of computer architectures and operating systems supported has expanded significantly since its first release. The first release supported UNIX systems, such as Linux, SGI IRIX and HP-UX. Since the initial release, GIMP has been ported to many operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and macOS; the original port to the Windows 32-bit platform was started by Finnish programmer Tor M. Lillqvist (tml) in 1997 and was supported in the GIMP 1.1 release.
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