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Easy to use for simple corrections & cropping. Powerful enough for the most  complex digital manipulations.  
Great for Photo-Restorations of old photographs (see below)

Almost as powerful as "Photoshop" but without the high price


This Graphic Image Manipulation Program is a must for anyone with a digital camera.  




Remove Red Eye
Correct colour & contrast
Convert colour images to Black & White
Increase colour saturation
Sharpen or blur your images
Resize or crop your images
Correct & manipulate images
Save images for the Web
Create animations
Vignette your photographs
Give your photos the appearance of film grain
Change the background colour
Colour a Black & white sketch
Add text to your images
Create a sepia tone photograph from colour
Blend exposures into one image
Add borders to your photographs
Remove unwanted objects from images
Jig Saw puzzles from your images
Make your image look like a painting









One of the most common uses of the Gimp is to fix digital camera images that for some reason are less than perfect. Maybe the image is overexposed or underexposed; maybe rotated a bit; maybe out of focus: these are all common problems for which Gimp has good tools. The purpose of this chapter is to give you an overview of those tools and the situations in which they are useful. You will not find detailed tutorials here: in most cases it is easier to learn how to use the tools by experimenting with them than by reading about them. (Also, each tool is described more thoroughly in the Help section devoted to it.) You will also not find anything in this chapter about the multitude of "special effects" that you can apply to an image using Gimp. You should be familiar with basic Gimp concepts before reading this chapter, but you certainly don't need to be an expert–if you are, you probably know most of this anyway. And don't hesitate to experiment: Gimp's powerful "undo" system allows you to recover from almost any mistake with a simple Ctrl-Z.

Most commonly the things that you want to do to clean up an imperfect photo are of four types: improving the composition; improving the colours; improving the sharpness; and removing undesirable elements of the image.

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    Features and Capabilities

    This is a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features.

  • Painting
    • Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
    • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
    • Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
    • Supports custom brushes and patterns
  • System
    • Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
    • Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
  • Advanced Manipulation
    • Full alpha channel support
    • Layers and channels
    • Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
    • Editable text layers
    • Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
    • Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
    • Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
    • Transformable paths, transformable selections.
    • Quickmask to paint a selection.
  • Extensible
    • A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs
    • Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
    • Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
    • Over 100 plug-ins already available
    • Animation
      • Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
      • MNG support
      • Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
      • Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
      • Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
    • File Handling
      • File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
      • Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
      • SVG path import/export
    • Much, much more!

Remember with this software you can remove blemishes & wrinkles, repair unsharp pictures, alter brightness, contrast and colour, enhance skin tones, remove items from your photographs that you don't want like posts, add type and special effects, compress images so that they load much faster on the web, fix lighting flaws or other mistakes, create animations and a whole lot more.

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Features And Capabilities of The Gimp

This is only a brief list of some of Gimp features:

  • Supports reading and writing of Adobe file formats like .psd and .pdf files as well as Paint Shop Pro .psp files and many more!
  • You can use Photoshop plugins without even having Photoshop!
  • 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.
  • Load, display, convert and save to many file formats.
  • 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.
  • Get creative with paint tools
  • Generate background patterns from any image
  • Distort with precision
  • Retouch and correct color
  • Effortlessly remove dust, scratches, wrinkles, and other flaws.
  • Superimpose images, text, and other elements on many layers
  • Organize layers into sets; merge, flatten, flip, copy, align, distribute, and lock layers; and even copy layer effects from one layer to another simply by dragging and dropping within the Palette List.
  • Paint and draw
  • Achieve top-quality results
  • Rotate, Crop, Clone
  • Transparency
  • Display and protect your images
  • Add special effects
  • Instantly switch editing modes
  • Manipulate your images
  • 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.
  • Load, display, convert and save to many file formats.
  • 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.
  • Get creative with paint tools
  • Generate background patterns from any image
  • Distort with precision
  • Retouch and correct color

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The Tasmania Department of Education not only uses the GIMP but also has a set of tutorials up about how to edit photographs with the GIMP. Unlike the high-end commercial applications, open source tools are cost effective enough to be used across the entire globe. Open source software can effectively surpass the limits of currency exchanges.
        
Use The GIMP to restore those faded and marked old photographs!
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GIMP is anacronym for GNU Image Manipulation
Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GIMP is part of "The Open CD" 

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.

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.

Open Source Software

"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer."
 
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

GIMP is free in both senses mentioned above. Since the software on the CD is distributed under an open source license, it really is free (as in speech). Once you receive your CD, you are free to install it on as many computers as you like. (don't try this with Microsoft software, folks)



However, if you are like me, and prefer the convenience of a CD-Rom, this CD is a great value. When you insert the CD in your CD-Rom drive, it automatically brings up the menu, which makes installation as simple as possible. (This menu is not included with the downloaded version). This CD also includes extra document templates and additional programs.   
However you get your copy, you owe it to yourself to try this great software.

System Requirements:

Microsoft Windows
(98, Me, 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher), XP or 2003)     Pentium 100 processor, or faster
(Intel, AMD, or compatible)   128 MB RAM, or more           250 MB hard drive space, or more (for full install - partial uses less)                           or Mac OS-X (X11 User)       Linux or Solaris versions also available on request

This software on this CD is for Windows (It is not a time-out or feature limited demo version)The CD also contains documentation (in .pdf format) These programs will run on all modern versions of Windows, including 98, Me, NT 4, 2000, and XP. It requires only a Pentium compatible processor, 32 MB of RAM (64 MB recommended) and 250 MB free hard drive space for a full install (you can get by with less space, if you choose to install only certain programs.  

GIMP is the most widely supported image manipulation available today. The platforms that The GIMP source code is known to work on includeGNU/Linux™,Apple Mac OS X  (Darwin)™,Microsoft Windows 98, Me, XP, NT4, and 2000™,OpenBSD™, NetBSD™,FreeBSD™, Solaris™,SunOS™, AIX™,HP-UX™, Tru64™,Digital UNIX™, OSF/1™,IRIX™, OS/2™, and BeOS™. "Photoshop" is the registered trade mark of Adobe Corporation.