GIMP is a free and open-source graphic design program that can be used for photo editing, image composition, and image creation tasks. It was created by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball to provide a free alternative to commercial graphic programs. GIMP has various tools for painting, drawing, and image manipulation. It supports layers, channels, transformations, and plug-ins for additional functionality. While originally developed for Linux, GIMP is also available on Windows and Mac OS X.

1. GIMP
{ a free software graphic application }
Day 3 of the MOZILLA APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (MAD) WORKSHOP
May 15-17, 2008. STI Building, Santiago St. General Santos City, Philippines

2. Hi, I'm Andrew Abogado
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3. All about GIMP
{ some essential background }

4. 1 a multi-platform photo manipulation tool
2 an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program
3 suitable for a variety of image manipulation
tasks, including photo retouching, image
composition, and image construction
4 can be used as a simple paint program, an expert
quality retouching program, an online batch
processing system, a mass production image renderer
and image format converter

5. 5 expandable and extensible
6 It's strengths is its free availability from many
sources for many operating systems
7 available for other operating systems such as Microsoft
Windows or Apple's MAC OS X

6. Who's behind
GIMP

7. originally, it was created by...
Peter Mattis &
Spencer Kimball

8. GIMP releases are currently being
Sven Neumann
orchestrated by
and Mitch Natterere and many
other people called the GIMP-Team

9. Their purpose was at the very
least would lessen the necessity
of using commercial software
under quot;Windozequot; or on the
quot;Macintoyquot;

10. Features &
Capabilities
{ a short overview on some of the features and
capabilities of GIMP }

11. 1 A full suite of painting tools including brushes, a
pencil, an airbrush, cloning, eraser, blend,
text and etc...
2 Tile-based memory management, so image size is
limited only by available disk space.
3 Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality
anti-aliasing
4 Full Alpha channel support for working with
transparency

12. 5 Layers and Channels
6 A procedural database for calling internal GIMP
functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
7 Advanced scripting capabilities
8 Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)

13. 9 Transformation tools including rotate, scale
shear and flip
10 File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM
TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
11 Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
bezier, and intelligent
12 Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new
file formats and new effect filters

14. and a whole lot more ...

15. Demo Time
{ Fun with Light }
an original GIMP tutorial by Gimper
at [ gimp-tutorials.net/light_bulb_gimp_tutorial ]

16. thanks for
listening!
{ Download GIMP Now. Visit gimp.org }

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GIMP - A free software graphic application by Andrew Abogado is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Philippines License