GIMP - Photo Edit Application in Linux Like PhotoShop

in utopian-io •  7 years ago  (edited)

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from the GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is suitable for a variety of image processing jobs, including photo enhancement, merging and image creation. GIMP has various capabilities. This software can be used for simple paint programs, high quality photo repairs programs, online batch processing systems, mass production of image rendering, image format converters and the designation of the GNU Image Manipulation Program or 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.

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GIMP is the best photo editing application equivalent to PhotoShop and set free for Linux, Mac, and Windows. The GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) capabilities have the same functionality as PhotoShop, so for you Linux user designer then GIMP is the best alternative PhotoShop app.

How to Install GIM Image Editor in Ubuntu / Linux Mint
You do not need to install GIMP on Linux Mint and Ubuntu because in both these Linux distributions GIMP is installed by default. To run GIMP, just click Application or Start Menu >> Graphics >> GIMP Image Editors
Features and Advantages of GIMP Photo Editor
GIMP has features that are featured as PhotoShop is as follows:
Painting

Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
Supports custom brushes and patterns

System

Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time

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, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
Foreground extraction tool
Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
Transformable paths, transformable selections.
Quickmask to paint a selection.

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Extensible

Use Procedural Database to call internal GIMP function from external program like Script-fu
Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
Support Plug-in that allows you to give effect of image filter and file extension support
There are over 100 plug-ins you can use

Animation

Load and save the animation in the form of frame-as-layer format
Support MNG
Frame Navigator (In GAP, the animated plugin for GIMP)
Onion Skin (GAP, Gimp Animation Package)
Bluebox (GAP, Gimp Animation Package)

File Handling

Support supported image formats are bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm and more if you install a separate plugin
Open, export, and save files into various formats
Export import capability of SVG file

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FOR GIM INSTALLATION IN LINUX

  1. First open the terminal on your linux.

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  1. Enter the command "apt-get install gimp", then enter.
    NB = if when you have typed the above command, after a while exit command Y / n just select Y then enter.

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  1. Wait for the process to finish.

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  1. If already installed we can search in the application menu or when we want to edit the image with right click the image and select open with GIMP.

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