GIMP 2.8 Reference Manual: The GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is a multi-platform 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. GIMP 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. One of The GIMPs strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Most GNU/Linux distributions include The GIMP as a standard application. The GIMP is also available for other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Apples Mac OS X (Darwin).This manual is available online for free at https: //.