About GIMP
GIMP is a powerful, free, open source image-editing package, with a wealth of tools for manipulating and painting graphics. GIMP first appeared in 1996 as the project of Spencer Kimball and Peter Matthis, students at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally, the acronym GIMP stood for General Image Manipulation Program. Later, this was redefined to stand for GNU Image Manipulation Program when, in 1997, GIMP became part of the GNU Project. Since then, GIMP has undergone significant (if sporadic) development, and its current feature set is comparable to that of commercial image-editing packages, like Adobe Photoshop. GIMP has tools for painting; manipulating colors; and working with selections, layers, paths, and channels. ...
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