Licence type-GNU (L)GPL
Written in -C , GTK+(GNU tool kit)
Development status- Active
Type- Raster Graphics Editor
First release on- January-1996
(16 years ago)
Latest release date- August24,2012 version-2.8.2
Extensions- GAP,GPS
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image retouching and editing tool and is released under the GPL v3 license as free and open source software. There are versions of GIMP tailored for most operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
GIMP has tools used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialised tasks. Animated images such as GIF and MPEG files can be created using an animation plugin.
The developers and maintainers of GIMP have a product vision for GIMP to strive to be a high end free software graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, photos, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements.GIMP was originally released as the General Image Manipulation Program, by creators Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis. Development of GIMP began in 1995 as a semester-long project at the University of California, Berkeley; The first public release of GIMP (0.54) was made in January 1996 and in the following year (1997) GIMP became a part of the GNU Project. The acronym GIMP was changed to mean the GNU Image Manipulation Program in reflection of its existence under the GNU Project. Currently GIMP is developed by a self-organized group of volunteers under the banner of the GNOME Project.
The number of computer architectures and operating systems GIMP supported has expanded significantly since its first release. The first release supported UNIX systems such as GNU/Linux, SGI IRIX and HP-UX Since the initial release, GIMP has been ported to many operating systems, including Microsoft Windows andMac OS X; the original port to the Windows 32-bit platform was started by Finnish programmer Tor Lillqvist (tml) in 1997 and was supported in the GIMP 1.1 release.
GIMP saw formation of a community and rapid adoption following the first release. The community that formed began developing tutorials, artwork and shared better work-flows and techniques.
A new GUI tool kit called GTK+ (GIMP tool kit) was developed to facilitate the development of GIMP. GTK+ replaced its predecessor GTK (no plus symbol) after being redesigned using a modern software design technique called object oriented programming. The development of GTK+ has been attributed to Peter Mattis becoming disenchanted with the Motif GUI toolkit GIMP originally used; Motif was used up until GIMP 0.60.
SOURCE- http://en.wikipedia.org
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