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What is the GIMP
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This site contains information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing GIMP. This site also serves as a distribution point for the latest releases, patches, plugins, and scripts. We also try to provide as much information about the GIMP community and related projects as possible.

What`s this site about?
Well, The Gimp is an image manipulation program, written by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball, and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a program for UNIX and X. To learn more about this program, just read on on this page

Where can I get The Gimp?
Easy. From this site. Just look at the Download section. There you'll find the latest stable and the current development version.

What about Gimp for Windows?
This is the question we get the most mail about. Yes, there is GIMP for Windows.

>Fresh from the Press... Tuesday, June 19th, 2001


gimp-1.2.2-pre1 available for testing
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.2/testing/ has a pre-release for Gimp-1.2.2. This is not an official Gimp release, but unless users report roblems, the 1.2.2 release, a bug-fix release in the stable 1.2 serie, will follow shortly. If you want to help to make 1.2.2 rock-solid download this tarball and torture it badly.

Polish Windows GIMP Website
Lukasz Lukasiewicz wrote in about a new website in Poland dedicated to the Windows version of GIMP. "We're working on tutorials and step-by step instructions explaining basic tools and functions. 'How-to' and 'Gallery' sections are under construction. All graphics has been created using GIMP of course by the author - Maciej Jezierski. Soon we will start a mailing list for users of GIMP for Windows. You can find us at: http://www.gimp.signs.pl/."

New Mail List For The Gimp Website
The discussion of the updating of the http://www.gimp.org/ website has moved to its own list. You can subscribe to this list online at the Gimp web info Page or by sending an email with "subscribe" as the subject to gimp-web-request@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu.

If you have any ideas, concerns, suggestions or if you would just like to help, please join this dialog.

Short interview about current Gimp development
Linuxgraphic.org features a short interview dealing with current Gimp development. There's the english original and a french translation available. Give it a read and join the hacking crew...

GIMP-PERL Debugged
For all the GIMP-PERL hackers out there, you might want to take a look at Seth Burgess' GIMP-PERL Debugged. It shows how to use various facities in the GIMP module and Perl itself to make script development less painful.

GIMP 1.2.1 Running On Mac OS X
We now have GIMP 1.2.1 compiled and running on Mac OS X. Screenshots etc. at http://www.macgimp.org/.

Updated GIMP-Perl Tutorial
Alex Harford, author of GIMP Essential Reference, has updated his GIMP-Perl tutorial.

New GIMP Tutorial On Making Fire
Jesse Raleigh has written a new tutorial on creating fire using the GIMP.

New Mpeg PlugIn
Wolfgang Hofer released a new Mpeg PlugIn for GIMP. It is based on the libmpeg3 and can load frames from Mpeg1/Mpeg2 Video and can extract Audio to .wav files.

PhymodMedia Plugins
David Bartold has a collection of interesting effects for GIMP.

Other news...