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.

• * 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

• - fixed a regression introduced by the brush cursor optimization (bug #514309)
• - fixed bug in transform tool preview (bug #340965)
• - fixed PSD export of images with layer masks
• - fixed base64 encoding routine of the Mail plug-in
• - use the correct background color when creating a new image (bug #514082)
• - explicitly link libgimpthumb with GLib (bug #515566)
• - improved selection of the font sample string (bug #514021)
• - unified handling of "Enter" and "Space" keysyms (bug #516544)
• - fixed bug in the Glossy script when used with a pattern (bug #517285)
• - correctly record dimensions in Exif data when saving as JPEG (bug #517077)
• - fixed sensitivity of plug-in menu items (bug #517683)
• - fixed potential crashes in Wind, Warp, Small Tiles and Apply Canvas
• plug-ins (bug #516369)
• - added default keyboard shortcut for "Paste As New Image" (Ctrl-Shift-V)
• - added default keyboard shortcut for "Copy Visible" (Ctrl-Shift-C)
• - fixed missing preview update in Curves tool (bug #518012)
• - fixed a bug in the Frosty Logo script (bug #472316)
• - fixed backward transformations using the PDB (bug #518910)
• - translation fixes and updates (de, eu, eo, fr, he, hu, it, ja, ko)