With the development of digital technology, more and more digital products are used universally in our life. Digital cameras are widely used all over the world especially today. We often take large numbers of photos in various occasions with our digital camera and store them on our hard disk in different directories. We also download pictures that we are interested from the websites. But view and manage these photos later are not an easy work for us. If there is a full featured image viewer and manager that can meet our need. Fortunately, I catch sight of a full-featured digital photo explorer over the Internet when I am surfing on-line. This is The GIMP. Did you know that? I have used it for a long time and I can make sure that it would be very helpful for you as well. Following is the detailed introduction of this powerful graphics editor and image manipulation.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. 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. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

The features and capabilities of The GIMP include: This is only 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, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy. Foreground extraction tool. 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 as in Script-fu. 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. Customizable interface - Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows us to customize the view and behavior the way we like it. Photo enhancement - Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Digital retouching - GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Hardware support - GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI controllers. We can bind often-used actions to device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller slider. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while we paint, bind our favorite scripts to buttons. Speed up our workflow! File formats - The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. The architecture allows to extend GIMP format capabilities with a plug-in. Thanks to the transparent virtual file system, it is possible to load and save files to from remote locations using protocols such as FTP, HTTP or even SMB (MS Windows shares) and SFTP/SSH. To save disk space, any format can be saved with an archive extension such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2 and GIMP will transparently compress the file without us needing to do any extra steps. Supported Platforms - Linux (i386, PPC); Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista); Mac OS X; Sun OpenSolaris; FreeBSD.

In addition, The GIMP is free for us and it does not contain any adware or spyware, so we can use it safely and undisturbedly. It is a standalone software and does not need any extra software and hardware requirement. It works with most recent variants of Windows and its current version is 2.4.3.

In a word, The GIMP has a friendly and easy-to-use interface. This is a very nice, easy to use and full-functions graphics editor. Not only can beginners use it simply but also experienced users can also use it for advanced application. With all these features, simple interface, excellent usability and free trial - why are you still reading? Download the free trial now and experience what powerful and effective it is at once! If you feel this utility is helpful indeed, introduce it to your friends please!

The GIMP 2.6. 7 for Windows is a Image Editing Software product from gimp.org, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many abilities. 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.
Whats New in version 2.4.6:
* fixed handling of the "antialias" tool option (bug #521069)
* when loading a TIFF image, always set a filename on it (bug #521436)
* fixed initial state of curve type in Curves tool (bug #523873)
* fixed potential crash in the Dicom load plug-in
* respect the brush mask in the Heal tool (bug #521433)
* plugged some minor memory leaks
* fixed a glitch in the DND code (bug #317992)
* gimp-image-convert() must not accept palettes with > 256 colors (bug #525471)
* fixed parameter description in the Map Object plug-in (bug #526679)
* fixed compilation of unit tests on Mac OS X (bug #528160)
* fixed handling of "argc-lower-val-y" PDB parameter in Curve Bend plug-in
* fixed overlap problem in Hue-Saturation tool (bug #527085)
* fixed asymmetry in Unsharp Mask plug-in (bug #530077)
* dont show non-existant color profiles in the selector (bug #528958)
* fixed issues with default aspect ratio in the Crop tool (bug #532057)
* fixed compilation of the PDF import plug-in with libpoppler 0.8
* fixed bug in clipboard brush code (bug #532886)
* corrected layer mask flag in PSD save plug-in (bug #526811)
* fixed an issue with tablets and newer X.Org releases
* keep the JPEG save plug-in from writing an empty EXIF tag (bug #529469)
* fixed crash in Selective Gaussion Blur plug-in (bug #529280)
* added new translations (Belarusian, Catalan, Norwegian Nynorsk)
* translation fixes and updates (ar, ca, de, el, es, fi, fr, hu, it, ko, pl, pt_BR, ro, sv) SoftSea.com had fully tested, reviewed and uploaded the install files, The GIMP does not contain any adware or spyware, the latest version is 2.6. 7 for Windows, you can download this image editing software software (15694KB) from special server of SoftSea.com. The license of this graphic software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Graphic software.