Gimp v 2.8

       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.

•     Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.

•     Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space

•     Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing

•     Full Alpha channel support

•     Layers and channels

•     A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu

•     Advanced scripting capabilities

•     Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)

•     Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip

•     File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others

•     Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent

•     Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters.