Gimp for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Using the Image Editing Software Program for Linux"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program and is for creating and editing image and graphics files using the open source operating system Linux. Gimp is the open source movement's version of Adobe Photoshop.

Gimp began in the summer of 1995 with students at University of California at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis. They rapidly got help from developers around the world on the Internet and in February 1996 the beta version was released. In July 1996 the Took Kit, GTK, was released. Version 1.0 was released May 19, 1998.

Containing over 300 built-in functions and filters, it can be as difficult to use really well as the more famous Adobe Photoshop. It did begin as a pixel-based image manipulation program, but now is also layer-based.

You can use Gimp to teach up photographs, image enhancement, compositing and 3D rendering

Its native file format is .xcf.

One big difference between Gimp and its famous competition is that it is freely available open source software, so it won't set you back $700 or so. Of course, you do need to have Linux or some other form of Unix.

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