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<title>Gimp :: 2d image manipulation</title>
<subtitle>software by Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Manish Singh and many others</subtitle>

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Complete documentation and manualistical is available on <ulink
url="http://gimp.org">gimp.org</ulink> and on <ulink
url="http://manual.gimp.org">manual.gimp.org</ulink>
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The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely
distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring.
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It is an extremely capable piece of software with many
capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, a expert
quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a
mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.
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GIMP is extremely expandedable and extensible. It is designed to be
augmented with plugins 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.
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