Use GIMP (Photoshop under Linux) for easy and free image processing

Use GIMP (Photoshop under Linux) for easy and free image processing

Author: Making good use of best soft Date: 2013-02-16 Category: 2 image video tag: GIMP, image

1. What is GIMP?

What is GIMP? The most accurate statement: The GNU image Manipulation program's abbreviation, an image editing handler written in GTK.
The easiest to understand: Photoshop under Linux, but now the Windows version works just as well.
The most xbeta style of argument: free open source GIMP, is a good alternative to expensive PhotoShop.
Network Description: GIMP is a free, distributed image retouching, image making and processing software that contains almost all the functions required for image processing, known as Photoshop under Linux. GIMP is popular with many drawing enthusiasts when it comes to Linux, its interface is quite light, but its function is not lost in professional drawing software; it offers a variety of image processing tools, filters, and many component modules, For the creation of a cool and beautiful page button or website logo is a very easy to use the drawing software, because it also provides a lot of modules, you just a little change, you can make a Web page button or website logo. Now that the for Windows version is released, don't try it soon ... Note: You need to install the GTK + Environment pack to install properly.

2. GIMP vs. Photoshop 2.1 Similarities: equally powerful

I believe that most of the effects of Photoshop can be achieved by the GIMP. Vice versa. Image processing, the key is creativity, followed by tools.
See the GIMP software interface, click to enlarge.

2.2 Differences

Price: The latest version of Photoshop sells for up to 5000 yuan, while GIMP is completely free.
Volume: GIMP is smaller, space-saving and resource-efficient than PhotoShop. For example, the use of good soft is currently used in the v2.8.4 portable version, installation package 50+MB, decompression after 150+MB. (Attached: GIMP 2.2 used in 2008: Installation file 7+m; Under win, to install the GTK environment, 3+m; The total directory size 19MB after installation), while the 1998 Photoshop 4.0 is installed near 40MB space, now the version is not known. I believe the latest version of the two software is more obvious.
Cross-platform: GIMP is famous for its Linux platform and is now widely used under Windows, and also supports Macs. PhotoShop is famous for Mac and Windows. The free online PhotoShop is now available, and of course it has a great distance from the software.

3. GIMP Video Demo

Want a more intuitive view of GIMP's interface, functionality? Please see the Flash recording screen below (579x687,900kb, recording screen tool for Wink). If you don't see the video, check your browser's flash filter settings, or the Flash version.

4. Download and install

If you are interested in GIMP, you may want to download the installation. Although it is foreign software (accurate, as open source software, everyone can participate, in this sense, is cross-border), but there is a Chinese language interface, but also support the importation of Chinese characters.

Download
Installation version:
Official website Download: gimp.org (recommended)
Domestic Download: Recommended Sina
Portable version:
Portableapps (recommended, I have been using) |portable Freeware|x-gimp
Description of the version number:
GIMP is divided into stable version (stable) and development version. In addition to the name distinction, it is also distinguished by the parity of the version number: the first digit after the decimal point is even, such as v2.8x, is stable version, for the odd, such as v2.9x, for the development version.

Installation
The installation of pure software can be all the way next, without worrying about bundling plugins.
Portable version of the download/installation process, see video (Use good soft in 2013-02-16 recording)

2009-10-19 recorded Standard Edition installation process animated GIF, click to view
　

Attached 1:GIMP history

Two students Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball, a computer student at Berkeley University, had plans in 1995 to start writing software like PhotoShop, which features image processing and photo editing. Four months later, they had preliminary results and were named General Image manipulation Program, or GIMP. This is the shape of the GIMP at that time.
At that time, GIMP already had basic image editing functions and could also enhance other effects through plugin. However, the biggest limitation for GIMP at the time was that it required some commercial software to run, very expensive, and that many people had no money to buy, and that the GIMP was easily crash and unstable.
After the launch of the 0.54 release in 1996, Spencer and Peter began to want more people to participate, and people around the world were also more interested in it, so they all put in a lot of effort to rewrite the whole software. At the same time, the more websites about the Gimp app, the more you'll learn about using GIMP, sharing skills, and demonstrating art creation.
GIMP continues to evolve until the early 97 version of 0.99. Spencer and Peter launched 0.99.10 in the middle of the year, because graduating from work and no longer involved in the development of GIMP, but this is hard for the developers, but it makes them more active to continue to develop. As such, until 98, the 1.0 release was finally released.
Since then, GIMP users have been asked to write a GIMP handbook, with the effort (mainly Karin & Olof S kylander), GIMP user Manual completed in 99 and can go to http://manual.gimp.or g/download. The second edition was followed by a printing press to publish the full Thousand-page handbook. Aside from this manual, there have also been a number of books with GIMP, one of which is New Riders out of the grokking the GIMP, the entire book has been released, you can download in http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/ 。
　　

Attached 2:GIMP Resources

1. GIMP official website http://www.gimp.org
2. GIMP Handbook (Chinese pdf) http://docs.gimp.org/zh_CN.pdf
3. GIMP Handbook (English htm) Http://docs.gimp.org/zh_CN
4. GIMP English Course (official website) http://www.gimp.org/tutorials
5. GIMP paradigm Teaching by Li Yu Http://micro.ee.nthu.edu.tw/~retry
6. GIMP 2.4.5 Chinese Teaching: Includes sample file download, video tutorial. By Jane 諭 teacher, Lin Jiaji teacher. This course will be published by the Acer peak, if necessary, please contact the Green House
7. GIMP Wiki Http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp
8. Considerations for installing GIMP 2.2 on the micro window
9. Gimp imagery: Four Lessons from (a-d) Cheng
10. GIMP Chinese site http://www.gnome-cn.org/newsitems/gimp/
11. Excellent GIMP tutorials and resources
12. Making Ancient Coins in GIMP: A tutorial on using GIMP to make ancient coins. Via Linuxtoy
13. Animated Gamer Tag: Make a simple text animation.
14. How to makes a Grunge Background: A tutorial for making a background.
15. Creating A Water Texture: A tutorial on making a watermark.
16. Create 3d Text: Make three-dimensional text.
17. MORE: GIMP Tutorial 1
18. MORE: GIMP Tutorial 2

Use GIMP (Photoshop under Linux) for easy and free image processing