In 1995, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis began developing GIMP—originally named General Image Manipulation Program—as a semester-long project at the 展开

The current version of GIMP works with numerous operating systems, including Linux, macOS and Windows. Many Linux distributions, such as 展开

Tools used to perform image editing can be accessed via the toolbox, through menus and dialogue windows. They include filters and brushes, as well as transformation, selection, layer and masking tools. GIMP's developers have asserted that it has, or at … 展开

GIMP's functionality can be extended with plugins. Notable ones include:
• GIMP-ML, which provides machine learning-based image enhancement. GIMP-ML with python 3 is … 展开

GIMP is primarily developed by volunteers as a free and open source software project associated with both the GNU and GNOME projects. Development takes place in a public git source code repository, on public mailing lists and in public chat channels on … 展开

Lifewire reviewed GIMP favorably in March 2019, writing that "[f]or those who have never experienced Photoshop, GIMP is simply a very powerful image manipulation program," and "[i]f you're willing to invest some time learning it, it can be a very good … 展开

Because of the free and open-source nature of GIMP, several forks, variants and derivatives of the computer program have been created to fit … 展开