The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

One of The GIMP's strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Most GNU/Linux distributions include The GIMP as a standard application. The GIMP is also available for other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows™ or Apple's Mac OS X™ (Darwin). The GIMP is not freeware. It is a Free Software application covered by the General Public License (GPL license). The GPL provides users with the freedom to access and alter the source code that makes up computer programs.

What's New:
· Added support for a registration color in the Decompose plug-in.
· The Align tool now also aligns to guides.
· Allow use CSS color notation in Script-Fu.
· More work on the new selection tools.
· Let Fractal Explorer work on grayscale and give it a larger preview.
· Speed up Value Invert plug-in.
· Added strong undo/redo functions bound to Shift-Ctrl-[ZY].
· Use radio items for the image mode menu.
· Applied Tango style on the default iconset.
· Added plug-in for colormap manipulation.
· Allow plug-ins to register in Layers, Channels, Vectors and Colormap dialog.
· Added load plug-in to open desktop links.
· Removed print plug-ins and started work on a replacement using the new GTK+ Print API.
· Added replacements for gimp_foo_select widgets, akin to GimpFontSelectButton.
· Introduced translation context to a number of colliding strings.
· Bug fixes and code cleanup.