Hi,
I noticed that GIMP is listed at the Nonags free software site. It's
description is severely lacking, and the link points to Tor's page
instead of GIMP.org or the sourceforge site.
I don't know who submitted it, and I suppose I could attempt to submit
these corrections myself, but it seems more appropriate for a
developer to at least approve the description first. I would be happy
to contact Nonags myself if asked by a developer.
After a few minutes work and a little research, I came up with the
following description. I pulled the feature list off the GIMP site
and condensed and edited it slightly.
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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is one of the best examples of
the potential of open source software to rival commercial solutions.
Originally developed by two college students for Linux, it has become
the single most capable free alternative to software like Photoshop,
Paintshop Pro, etc. Books have been published on using GIMP (new one
came out in early 2006). GIMP is suitable for image creation, photo
retouching, or any raster graphics authoring/editing. Some of GIMP's
major features are as follows:
-Painting: Full suite of painting tools (Brush, Pencil, Airbrush,
Clone, etc.), sub-pixel sampling for high quality anti-aliasing,
powerful gradient editor and blend tool, support for custom brushes
and patterns
-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, ellipse, free, fuzzy and
intelligent), numerous color correction/effects tools including a
histogram, advanced path tool for bezier and polygonal selections,
transformable paths, transformable selections, quickmask to paint a
selection, full compliment of filters (for sharpening, blurring,
artistic effects, shadows and lighting, enhancement, etc.)
-Animation (using GIMP Animation Package): 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)
-Compatibility and Extensibility: Image size is limited only by
available disk space, virtually unlimited number of images may be open
at one time, highly extensible with a plugin interface and support for
scripting (Scheme, Python, Perl), numerous 3rd party resources on the
web (plugins, filters, gradients, brushes, patterns, tutorials, online
books), comprehensive file format support (bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx,
pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others)
Ben W.
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