The Gimp
The Gimp is a free image editor similar to Adobe Photoshop. The Gimp comes equipted with a wide verity of professional tools allowing you to retouch, enhance and manipulate digital images. You can also install plug-ins that extend the Gimp's capablities.
Gimp's Tools & Features
- Layers, Channels, Mask
- 150 standard effects and filters: Motion Blur, Drop Shadows, Noise
- Painting Tools: Paint Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Eraser
- Editing Tools: Clone tool, Healing Brush, Rotate, Scale, Shear, Perspective and Flit, Blur, Sharpen
- Selection Tools: Magic Wand, Qick Mask, Paths Tool
Recommended Plug-ins
- Save for web allows you to switch between file formats and quality settings quickly so that you can find optimal setting for your images.
- Image subdivide will divide an image in x amount of Rows and Columns.
- GimpPublishr will allow you to quickly publish your images to Flickr or Picasa web album.
- Photo effects is a collection of image effect scripts. Includes: Cartoon, Color pencil, Conte crayon, Cutout, Drawing, Inkpen, Note Paper, Paint dot image, Palette knife, Pastel, Stamp, Water paint effect, (plastic) Wrap effect. Angled strokes, Crosshatched, Chrome image, Cross light, Funky color, Soft focus, Sola.
- Digital Infrared will make your image look like a B&W infrared image.
Find more plug-ins at GIMP Plugin Registry
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