GIMP Photo Editor
Why pay nearly $650 for PhotoShop® when you can get this great program for only a fraction of the cost?
You’ve Just Discovered An Incredible Tool That Only LOOKS Like It Cost A Million Bucks…”
In the eternal words of Donna Summer, “[you] work hard for the money,” and we know that you work equally hard at holding on to it.
Believe me, we completely understand.
It is in that spirit that we proudly say, “Brace yourselves, gang – what we’re about to show you is likely to shake the moths from your wallet!
Can You Really Get MORE Than You Paid For? The answer is a resounding “YES!”
This is a FULL VERSION of the software – not a demo or a trial version.
Introducing GIMP – the best-kept secret of photo-editing tightwads everywhere. Why pay nearly $650 for PhotoShop® when you can get this great program for only a fraction of the cost?
That’s no typo – for less than what you’d pay for fast food lunch for two (assuming you’re picking up the tab!), you could be on your way to editing your photos and graphics in professional style!
Purchase Your Copy – Just $7.50
GIMP has all of these great features:
- 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
- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time- Full alpha channel support
- Layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by disk space)
- 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.
- Quick mask to paint a selection.
- A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in scri pt-fu
- Advanced scri pting 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
- 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 formats supported (bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm)
- Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
- SVG path import/export
- And much more!
File Formats:
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. The architecture allows the user to extend GIMP’s format capabilities with a plug-in. You can find some rare format support in the GIMP plugin registry.
Brushes, colors, and painting tools:
- Over 48 standard brushes,
- Can create your own Brushes.
- Brushes can be used in multiple modes applied at different opacities
- A Palette with RGB, HSV, color wheel, CMYK, and mixing modes is available and configurable
- You can pick colors from the image with various averaging options.
- Support for hexadecimal color codes to help select the correct colors for use in HTML pages.
Selection and Masking tools:
- Multiple selection options are available to include rectangles, circles, and similar colors
- Freehand selection.
- Magic Wand select tool which allows for contiguous region selections
Layers and Transparency:
- Support for multiple layers including transparent layers with the ability to show, hidden, or make them semitransparent
- The ability to use channels are for adding different types of opacity and color effects to images
Paths:
- Paths can be created that contain line segments or bezier curves
- Paths can be assigned a name, saved, and painted with brushes, patterns, or various line styles
- Smart Intelligent Scissors tool is also provided this can be used to auto-create paths between regions
Effects, scripts & Filters:
- Over 150 standard effects and filters including drop shadow, blur, motion blur, and noise – more can also be downloaded
- Professional photo editing software can also be used in batch mode which allows for mass image editing
GIMP User Manual
GIMP comes with a built-in help system. Once you have started the program, press F1 for context-sensitive help. You may have to install the help pages from a separate package (gimp-help), depending on how your version of GIMP was packaged.
System Requirements:
Windows (NT4, 2000, XP or Vista)
800 x 600 Screen Resolution or Higher
128 MB RAM



