The General Image Manipulation Program
What is The GIMP?
- A high-performance, high-quality, free image manipulation program
for Unix/X-Windows.
- Similar in many ways to well known commercial packages like Adobe
Photoshop (tm), Fractal
Design Painter (tm) and ImageFX
(tm).
- Powerful and simple API for programmers wanting to contribute
code ("plug-ins"). As I'm writing this, there's over 70 finished
plug-ins and several more in the works.
Other GIMP-related pages
You can download The GIMP program and source-code from The
GIMP home page. If you're planning to write a plug-in for it, be sure
to check out the plug-in registry
first. Other people with GIMP-related pages include:
- Federico
Mena Quintero
(GIMP guru and plug-in writer. Keeper of the nexus of GIMP links
and information; Everybody loves The GIMP)
- Zach Beane (GIMP's
answer to Kai Krause? :)
- Stephen R. Norris (Author
of several very useful plug-ins; Displace, Plasma and Waves)
- Torsten
Martinsen (XPaint maintainer and author of many very useful
GIMP plug-ins)
- Marc
Bless (Polar plug-in and the GIMP programmers reference)
- Michael J. Hammel
(Sparkle plug-in and several interesting pages on GIMP and Unix graphics)
- Adam
D. Moss (Plug-in author and maintainer of the GIMP plug-in registry)
- Jan Hubicka (Maintainer and author of
the math (equations) plug-in)
- Jim Geuther (Numerous
color-map plug-ins and some file plug-ins)
Some quick tips and tutorials
My GIMP plug-ins
Last changed 12-Jul-1996 by Tom
Bech (tomb@ii.uib.no)