GNU Image Manipulation Program - GIMP

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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. 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.

GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Projects

• Cage-based deformation tool Green Coordinates is a method allowing deformation of an image, by deforming the inside of a polyhedral cage. The technique was exposed in Siggraph 2008. Unlike the other classical method (mean value coordinates, harmonic coordinates, ..), it allows high quality deformation by preserving the shape. Basic behavior of the tool: * you "put" a closed polygon on the image (not limited to 4 handles) * you deform the cage, the image is deformed accordingly
• HDR and matting operators for GEGL GEGL does not currently contain methods which assist in HDR workflows which have become quite popular. I propose to develop three native GEGL tone-mapping operations. I also propose to target an image matting operator, allowing the straightforward decomposition of an image into foreground and background components. I will implement the `matting laplacian'.