GNU Image Manipulation Program
High-end image creation and manipulation
by The GIMP teamVerified
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About
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is Community-driven Free Software for high-end image creation and manipulation. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, image composition, 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. GIMP is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS.
Changelog
The second bugfix release of the GIMP 3.2 series brings it to quite a stable state again as bugs reports are slowing down. - Bug fixed where GIMP would fail to open some XCF - When moving a floating layer or selection with a selection tool, marching ants are now disabled - Improved Text tool, especially regarding prioritizing global actions - Better temporary folder handling - Fill actions now behave accordingly to the target item type - Various file formats support improved - A new function and a deprecation in the libgimp API for plug-ins
Additional information
- Developer
- The GIMP team
- License
- GPL-3.0+ AND LGPL-3.0+
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Languages
- ar, ast, be, bg, bn, br, bs, ca, ca@valencia, cs, da, de, el, en_GB, en_US, eo, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fr, gd, gl, hr, hu, id, is, it, ja, ka, kab, kk, ko, lt, lv, mk, mr, my, nb, ne, nl, nn, oc, pa, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sr@latin, sv, ta, te, th, tr, uk, vi, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW
- Size
- 95.0 MB
- Homepage
- https://www.gimp.org/
- Available via
- Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store (stable build), AUR (git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Slackware, Solus, Gentoo
- Catalog data as of
- 9/3/2026 (dataset snapshot date — per-app update dates aren't tracked yet)