GIMP

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Contents 1 WHAT IS GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2 Feature Overview 2.1 Customizable Interface 2.2 Photo Enhancement 2.3 Digital Retouching 2.4 Hardware Support 2.5 File Formats 2.6 Supported Platforms 3 COMPARE/CONTRAST 4 CLASSROOM USE 5 STUDENT WORK and COMMENTS 5.1 Alex and Zack 5.2 Curtis and Jesenia 5.3 Kendal and Cameron 5.4 Jason 5.5 Chris

WHAT IS GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. 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 wbsite to download your free copy. [1]

Feature Overview

GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package. This section should help you get a taste of what GIMP is capable of. You can also have a look at our introduction page or browse through the tutorials.[2]

Customizable Interface

Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Starting from the widget theme, allowing you to change colors, widget spacings and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulized into so called docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden.

GIMP features a great fullscreen mode allowing you to not only preview your artwork but also do editing work while using the most of your screen estate.

Photo Enhancement

Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens' barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface.

The included channel mixer gives you the flexibility and power to get your B/W photography stand out the way you need.

Digital Retouching

GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unneeded details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the new healing tool. With the perspective clone tool, it's not difficult to clone objects with perspective in mind just as easily as with the orthogonal clone.

Hardware Support

GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI controllers. You can bind often-used actions to device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller's slider. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while you paint, bind your favorite scripts to buttons. Speed up your workflow!

File Formats

The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. The architecture allows to extend GIMP's format capabilities with a plug-in. You can find some rare format support in the GIMP plugin registry.

Thanks to the transparent virtual file system, it is possible to load and save files to from remote locations using protocols such as FTP, HTTP or even SMB (MS Windows shares) and SFTP/SSH.

To save disk space, any format can be saved with an archive extension such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2 and GIMP will transparently compress the file without you needing to do any extra steps.

Supported Platforms

• GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)
• Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)
• Mac OS X
• Sun OpenSolaris
• FreeBSD

COMPARE/CONTRAST

CLASSROOM USE

It is important for students to be able to express what they are learning with the four-fold method; words, visual, numbers, discussion (examples). Students can use Gimp to create a visual for what they learning. When a person can relate what they are learning with visual representation and then explain their visual representation, they will retain this new knowledge longer. They have taken ownership of the material.

• Visual Representation for:
  • Vocabulary
  • Math Concepts
  • Comic Strips
  • Look inside a room
  • Story Boards
  • Who is the Person?

STUDENT WORK and COMMENTS

The assignmnent was to create a MadLib game for someone else to play. The game was to ask the student various parts of speech. Once they completed their MadLib story, they needed to create an illustration of their MadLib story using GIMP.

Alex and Zack

• Man running from dog after man fell out of tree
• Copied and pasted a picture into gimp that matched story
• Applied filters so the picture would appear more realistic
• Removed copyright lines from photo
• I already have this downloaded on my computer at home

Curtis and Jesenia

• Roger vs. the Mighty Dragon
• Didn’t understand how to use the GIMP program at first, but it is fairly similar to Photoshop
• Used a fire looking brush to alter the background
• After working in the program, I will download and never use Paint again

Kendal and Cameron

• The day 3 lawyers were defeated by kids
• Used the drawing tool to draw buildings
• Used gradient to give the picture a sunset
• Added dinosaur and super hero
• Used air brush to make fire
• Drew super happy sun
• Used smear tool to blend color
• This is a great alternative to Paint

Jason

• The attack of the killer bell pepper people
• Used gradient tool to create a background
• Used paintbrush to draw sparks
• Used the sharpen and edge filters to change the color and make more distinct
• Used fill option to create mouth
• Touched up edges with paintbrush

Chris

• Change contrast and brightness of photo
• Discolor photos with the distortion tool
• Added motion blur