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Painting
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System
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- Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
- Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
- Supports custom brushes and patterns
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- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by disk space
- Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
- Computer photo organizing and editing
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Supports All File Formats
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Extensible |
- Multiple file formats supported - bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and more
- Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
- SVG path import/export
- Much, much more!
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- A Procedural Database for calling internal functions from external programs
- Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
- Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
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| Animation |
Selection and Masking |
- Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
- MNG support
- Frame Navigator
- Onion Skin
- Bluebox
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- Perform rectangular or circular selection, freehand selection, and color selection. Digital photo editing cut and paste
- Alternatively, the Smart Selection tool, known as the "Magic Wand", can be used to select contiguous regions.
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Brushes, colors, and painting tools
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Gradients
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- Comes with 48 standard brushes, plus facilities to create new ones. Brushes can be used in hard-edged, soft-edged, or eraser modes, be applied at different opacities, or used to apply various effects.
- Palette with RGB, HSV, colour wheel, CMYK, and mixing modes, plus tools to pick colours from the image with various averaging options.
- Support for hexadecimal colour codes (as used in HTML). While 'CMYK' is offered in the Palette, GIMP, by default, works only in RGB, grayscale and index color modes.
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- Also supports gradients, which integrate into its other tools (such as brushes and fills) to shade image areas with automated color blending.
- It includes a variety of built-in gradients, and as with the brushes, also allows the user to customize and create their own gradient fills.
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Advanced Manipulation
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Layers, channels, and transparency
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- Full alpha channel support with layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
- Editable text layers
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
- Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
- Quickmask to paint a selection.
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- Support for layers, including transparent layers, which can be shown, hidden, or made semitransparent.
- It also supports transparent and semitransparent images. Channels add different types of opacity and color effects to images.
- Settings made with the opacity slider in the Layers Dialog are not representedcorrectly in the Transform tool previews. This can make lining up layers correctly more difficult.
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Paths
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Special effects, scripts and filters
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- Paths containing line segments or bezier curves can be made. Paths can be named, saved, and painted with brushes, patterns, or various line styles.
- They are also an extremely powerful and useful selection tool, allowing you to create complex selections. Intelligent Scissors (iScissors) tool can be used to auto-create paths between regions defined by strong color-changes.
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- Approximately 150 standard and photo editor special effects and filters, including Drop Shadow, Blur, Motion blur, Noise, and much more
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