What is The GIMP?

• A high-performance, high-quality, free image manipulation program for Unix/X-Windows.
• Similar in many ways to well known commercial packages like Adobe Photoshop (tm), Fractal Design Painter (tm) and ImageFX (tm).
• Powerful and simple API for programmers wanting to contribute code ("plug-ins"). As I'm writing this, there's over 70 finished plug-ins and several more in the works.

Other GIMP-related pages

You can download The GIMP program and source-code from The GIMP home page. If you're planning to write a plug-in for it, be sure to check out the plug-in registry first. Other people with GIMP-related pages include:

• Federico Mena Quintero (GIMP guru and plug-in writer. Keeper of the nexus of GIMP links and information; Everybody loves The GIMP)
• Zach Beane (GIMP's answer to Kai Krause? :)
• Stephen R. Norris (Author of several very useful plug-ins; Displace, Plasma and Waves)
• Torsten Martinsen (XPaint maintainer and author of many very useful GIMP plug-ins)
• Marc Bless (Polar plug-in and the GIMP programmers reference)
• Michael J. Hammel (Sparkle plug-in and several interesting pages on GIMP and Unix graphics)
• Adam D. Moss (Plug-in author and maintainer of the GIMP plug-in registry)
• Jan Hubicka (Maintainer and author of the math (equations) plug-in)
• Jim Geuther (Numerous color-map plug-ins and some file plug-ins)

Some quick tips and tutorials

• Creating golden text

My GIMP plug-ins

• Lighting effects
• Map-to-sphere
• LIC (Line Integral Convolution)