Just as GIMP works across several platforms and programming languages, it also integrates well with other free software like Inkscape, Scribus, and Swatchbooker. It comes with support for a wide variety of popular programming languages, too, including Python, Perl, C, C++ and many others. Whatever operating system you have, Windows, macOS, or Linux, GIMP works across platforms. A database to use GIMP functions from external programs.

Layers and channels, including a full Alpha channel for working with transparency.Transformation tools to rotate, scale, flip and shear.Selection tools including intelligent scissors, free, eclipse, rectangle, fuzzy and bezier.

Plugins to add file formats and special effects filters.

An artistic toolbox that includes brushes, a pencil, an airbrush and cloning.

Here are some of the features that make GIMP so popular: Within an open-source community, new features can be added almost as soon as users realize they need or want them. With open-source applications, developers often focus on creating the features most requested by users. For example, Peter Sikking, a usability architect, contributed to developing the polyline and rectangular selection/cropping tools and the single-window mode. Many programmers have contributed to both GIMP itself and to developing plug-ins to give it increased capabilities. Users can contribute their own custom features to it, as well as use a variety of plug-ins. (Free and open-source means that hobbyists can use it, too, and many use it to gain the skills they need to become professionals.) That means professionals who use it can use their resources to produce more high-quality work instead of paying high monthly fees for an expensive proprietary application. One thing that makes it so popular is that it’s a free, open-source application. Scientists, photographers, graphic designers and illustrators are among some of the professionals that use the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

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