Gnu IMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program (AKA: GIMP)
Release date:	1996–
Made by:	Open-source
Runs on:	BSD Linux Mac OS Solaris Windows
Imports:	...
Exports:	...

Despite the awful acronym, The Gnu Image Manipulation Program is a decent image editing program—a free alternative to something like Adobe's PhotoShop (which is awful SAAS now). Another (Windows-only) alternative that's popular is Paint.NET. And the drawing tool Krita has a lot of feature overlap.

There was a project/fork of GNU IMP based round fixing the name and improving the program generally called Glimpse, but development on it has stopped (though if you can download a copy it works great) to work on a new take called Glimpse NX.

FYI to break it down fully GIMP stands for GNU's not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Image Manipulation Program D:

Plug-Ins

Animation

Gnu IMP can already create animated GIFs (each layer becomes a frame), but there are some tools to make the process easier.

GIMP Animation Package

• Using GAP guide.

AnimStack

• animstack on github pages (source not actually on Github?)
• animstack.tumblr.com

Links

• Guide:Gnu IMP
• Wikipedia:GIMP
• gimp.org