Gimpshop.For those members who work with an Apple computer and are reluctant to buy Adobe Photoshop, there is now Gimpshop. This is based on the Open Source Gimp digital software but designed for the Mac, yet still retaining a distinct Photoshop look and feel. If using windows, download the windows installer from http://plasticbugs. com/?page_id=294 GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program. Its creators, Spencer Kimball and Petter Mattis, initially started GIMP as a semester-long project for a class at University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . Both were integral members of eXperimental Computing Facility Founded in 1986, the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF) is an undergraduate computing-interest organization (in contrast to the Open Computing Facility and the Computer Science Undergraduate Association, which support most of the general-interest computing desires of the UC , a student club at Berkeley. In 1997, after both Kimball and Mattis had graduated, the name was changed to GNU gnu (n  ) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. Image Manipulation Program when
it became an official GNU project. GIMP is a free software raster image
editor. It also has some support for vector graphics and is now
maintained by a group of volunteers. Some consider GIMP to be proof that
the free software development process can create things non-geeks can
use productively, and as such, psychologically paved the way for such
efforts as Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and various other
applications that followed.
Betty Billingham, Editor 74 Finch Road, Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire; BS37 6JE, ENGLAND; betty@erbillingham.fsnet.co.uk |
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