This is an automatic translation of the original german program description, made by Google's translation service:
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP 2 is comparable to Adobe Photoshop image editing program for free. Studied designers do not want to forgo the usual safe Photoshop, but if it as home users who want to save more than 1,000 euros for Photoshop, they are given an image editing with GIMP 2 is also professional requirements.
GIMP is originally from the Linux world, and is therefore offered under General Public License. Like Photoshop, GIMP 2 sets of image planes. These can be arranged in an image independently of each other and edit each individually and position. This allows bsw. Texts positioned on a background, add any other objects on any number of additional levels and everything can always be edited individually.
GIMP, of course, has all the tools that they "expected of an imaging: Selection tools such as rectangle or a magic wand" for colors, painting tools, such as gradient, brush, eraser, airbrush, blur. Inaddition, transformations such as rotating, mirroring, scaling, cropping, perspective ... Colors can be determined through channels. For the design of forms paths are used. The text features are quite a bit meager.
GIMP has in the default install numerous filters and effects such as bsw. Blur, Sharpen, lighting effects, mosaic, wave ... Since GIMP like Photoshop can be extended through plug-ins available on the internet many other filters that can be integrated into the program. GIMP also has a scripting engine that allows them to automate image processing functions.
be known and supported over 20 image formats like verbeitete bsw. JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIF, PCX, PSD (Photoshop), and many more. With the expiry of the patent by GIMP 2 is again untersützt the GIF format. Since GIMP from the Linux world is, the user interface with the first three-part window, perhaps a little getting used to.
The GTK + components have been part of the GIMP GIMP 2.4.0 and no longer need to be installed separately. The German help file with detailed explanations about the GIMP, however, they must here to download an extra .
