Post by Ashlee on Sept 7, 2010 19:23:34 GMT -5
Features and Capabilities
-This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features. You can also have a look at the illustrated features overview.
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.
Extensible
-A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
-Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
-Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
-Over 100 plug-ins already available
Animation
-Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
-MNG support
-Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
-Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
-Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
File Handling
--File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, -tga, xpm, and many others
-Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
-SVG path import/export
Much, much more!