![]() GIMP saw formation of a community and rapid adoption following the first release. Since the initial release, GIMP has been ported to many operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Mac 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. The first release supported UNIX systems such as GNU/Linux, SGI IRIX and HP-UX. The number of computer architectures and operating systems GIMP supported has expanded significantly since its first release. ![]() Currently GIMP is developed by a self-organized group of volunteers under the banner of the GNOME Project. The acronym GIMP was changed to mean the GNU Image Manipulation Program in reflection of its existence under the GNU Project. 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. GIMP was originally released as the General Image Manipulation Program, by creators Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis. The developers and maintainers of GIMP have a product vision for GIMP to strive to be a 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. Animated images such as GIF and MPEG files can be created using an animation plugin. GIMP has tools used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages (combining multiple images), converting between different image formats, and more specialised tasks. GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open source software image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux. Many languages (52 languages, 37 full translations) GNU/ Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris, AmigaOS 4 ![]() ![]() GIMP, version 2.8 running on Ubuntu 12.04. For other uses, see Gimp (disambiguation). ![]()
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