This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems.
GIMP's user manual can be dowloaded separately on the documentation website either as language-specific Windows installers or as source tarball. The manual can also be browsed online
You don’t have to be a developer to participate to the GIMP project. Some team members help with design, community management, bug triaging… and some help with documentation and tutorials!
GIMP User Manual ¶ GIMP comes with a built-in help system, available in dozens of languages. Once you have started the program, press F1 for context-sensitive help. You may have to install the help pages: On Linux: from a separate package (gimp-help), depending on how your version of GIMP was packaged. On Windows: from a separate installer: here
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages. Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.
High bit depth GIMP’s floating point Exposure operation: much better than Curves for lightening the shadows and midtones of an image without blowing the highlights
GIMP is a Free Software application covered by the General Public License version 3 [GPL]. The GPL provides users with the freedom to access and alter the source code that makes up computer programs.
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
GIMP Release Notes Here are the release notes for the versions of GIMP that can be found on our downloads page. Release notes for the stable version, GIMP 3.0. This is the version that most users should be running. Older release notes may still have some historical value: 2.10 (stable) 2.8 (stable) 2.7 (development) 2.6 (stable) 2.5 (development)
