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GIMP is a cross-platform image editing program available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and several operating systems. It is free software, you can modify the source code and distribute your changes.

Whether you’re a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP gives you sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further improve your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and third-party plugins.

Characteristics

Customizable interface

Each task requires a different environment, and GIMP allows you to customize its display and behavior to your liking. Starting from the widget theme, you can change colors, widget spacing and icon sizes for custom toolkits in the toolbox. The interface is modularized into so-called docks, so you can stack them in tabs or keep them open in their own window. Pressing the tab key will hide them.

GIMP has a great full-screen mode that allows you to not only preview your artwork, but also do editing work while making the most of your screen.

Photo enhancement

Numerous digital image defects can be easily compensated using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt by selecting the correction mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter, but a simple interface.

Digital retouching

GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unnecessary details using the clone tool, or easily repair minor details with the new heal tool. With the perspective clone tool, it is not difficult to clone objects with perspective in mind as easily as with the orthogonal clone.

Hardware support

GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure- and tilt-sensitive tablets, but also a wide selection of USB or MIDI controllers. You can associate commonly used actions with device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving the slider of a MIDI controller. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while painting, bind your favorite scripts to buttons. Speed ​​up your workflow.

File formats

File format support ranges from common ones such as JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special purpose formats such as multi-resolution and multi-color depth Windows icon files. The architecture makes it possible to extend GIMP’s formatting capabilities with a plug-in. You can find support for rare formats in the GIMP plugin registry.

Thanks to the transparent virtual file system, it is possible to load and save files to from remote locations using protocols such as FTP, HTTP or even SMB (MS Windows shares) and SFTP/SSH.

To save disk space, any format can be saved with an archive extension such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2 and GIMP will compress the file transparently without you having to do any additional steps.

What is new

GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that initially focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However, the new version comes with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file format support, various usability improvements, renewed support for color management, a host of improvements aimed at digital painters and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.

Updated user interface and first HiDPI support

One thing that is immediately noticeable about GIMP 2.10 is the new dark theme and symbolic icons enabled by default. This is intended to dampen the environment somewhat and shift the focus towards content.

There are now 4 user interface themes available in GIMP: Dark (default), Gray, Light, and System. Icons are now separated from themes, and we maintain both color and symbol icons, so you can configure GIMP to have a system theme with color icons if you prefer the old look.

Also, icons are available in four sizes now, so GIMP would look better on HiDPI screens. GIMP will do its best to detect which size to use, but you can manually override that choice in Edit > Preferences > Interface > Icon Themes.

GEGL port, support for high bit depth, multi-threading and more

The final goal for v2.10 was to complete the port to the GEGL image processing library, starting with v2.6 when we introduced optional use of GEGL for color tools and an experimental GEGL tool, and continuing with v2.8 where we added GEGL-based projection of layers.

Now GIMP uses GEGL for all tiling and builds an acyclic graph for each project. This is a prerequisite for adding non-destructive editing planned for v3.2.

There are many benefits to using GEGL, some of which you can already enjoy in GIMP 2.10.

• High bit depth support enables processing images with up to 32-bit precision per color channel and opening/exporting PSD, TIFF, PNG, EXR and RGBE files in their native quality. In addition, FITS images can be opened with up to 64-bit precision per channel.
• Multi-threading makes it possible to use more cores for processing. Not all functions in GIMP make use of it, it is something we intend to work on further. A point of interest is that multi-threading occurs through GEGL processing, but also in core GIMP itself, for example to separate painting from display code.