Creating and Editing Images with GIMP

Several graphics programs and image-editing programs are available for FreeBSD, such as bitmap for creating background patterns and mouse pointers and Xfig for drawing figures and illustrations. KDE and GNOME also come with simple image-editing programs, such as KolorPaint, a Microsoft Paint clone, and Krita—a full-featured Photoshop-style application—is part of KOffice. GIMP, however, is the most significant and full-featured graphics program in the open-source world today.

GIMP, which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a freely available imageediting program maintained by the GNU project. It has many advanced features, such as layers, filters, paths, and support for tablet input. It’s intended ...

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