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Knowing the Definition and History of the Development of GIMP




       The GNU Image Manipulation Program, better known as GIMP, is software for raster-based graphics manipulation.

GIMP runs on the GNOME desktop and is released under the GNU General Public License. GIMP was originally developed for the X11 desktop which runs on the Unix platform. But now this software has been ported to several other operating system platforms, namely MS Windows and Mac OS. The graphics produced by GIMP are saved in XCF format and can be exported to various image formats such as bmp, jpg, gif, pdf, png, svg, tiff, and many others. GIMP provides many plugins that make it easy to process images quickly. GIMP developers and managers have a vision of GIMP's products to strive to become sophisticated graphics software for editing and creating images, photos, icons, original web page graphic elements, and art for user interface elements.

  History Of GIMP


        GIMP was originally an abbreviation of the GIMP Image Manipulation Program, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis., Began developing GIMP 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. In 1997 GIMP became part of the GNU project, and the abbreviation GIMP was changed to the GNU Image Manipulation Program. At present GIMP is managed and enhanced by a group of volunteers under the auspices of the GNOME Project.



GIMP was originally created for UNIX, Linux, SGI IRIX, and HP-UX systems which were supported in the first release. Since the first release GIMP was quickly adopted and the user community created tutorials, artworks and techniques together. Since its initial release, GIMP has been transported to many operating systems including Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X; The original port to the win32 platform was started by Finnish programmer Tor Lillqvist (TML) in 1997 and supported in the 1.1 GIMP release.



GIMP has used three graphical user interface (GUI) toolkits since its inception; GIMP This motif was originally used in the first public release (0.54). At some point Petrus Mattis became disappointed with the Motive and developed his own GUI tool called GIMP (GTK); GTK has succeeded in replacing Motif in the 0.60 GIMP release, Finally GTK was rewritten to be an object. oriented and renamed GTK +, this was first seen in GIMP 0.99.





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