Image Processing Reference
In-Depth Information
1.5 Get GIMP Running
1.5.1 Where Can I Get GIMP?
GIMP is a free program for image editing, designed and developed for
the (largely) free Linux operating system. When Microsoft Windows users
discovered GIMP, their interest motivated the development of a Windows
version that has been available for several years now. The Windows version
and additional helpers or plug-ins can be downloaded for free from the
following locations.
•
GIMP's home page
is at
http://www.gimp.org
.
You'll find links to versions
available for the Linux/UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems
as well as many other interesting details.
• You can ind
GIMP, GTK+, and additional packages
for Windows at
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html o
r
http://sourceforge.net/
projects/gimp-win/files/.
.
• A Windows installer for the
GIMP animation package
GAP
for GIMP
version 2.6.0 is available at
http://www.box.net/shared/e9i2rgyn9t
.
•
GhostScript
and
GhostScriptViewer
, the programs dealing with
PostScript and PDF for Linux and Windows, can be found at
http://www.
ghostscript.com
or
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
• GIMP supports plug-ins written in the Python programming language.
For Windows, you must first install Python and the PyGTK+. The
installer for Python is available at
http://www.python.org/download/
releases/2.5.5
and the installer for the PyGTK+ at
http://ftp.gnome.org/
pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.12.
For Windows, you should
choose an appropriate PyGTK+ version. The current version 2.6 from
November 2008 didn't work with GIMP under Window Vista. Version 2.5.5
works without any problems.
• Additional
GIMP plug-ins
can be found at
http://registry.gimp.org.
• Visit
http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html o
r
http://www.gimp.org/
books/
for a free
GIMP user manual
.
A revised version of the GIMP hack called
GIMPshop
by Scott Moschella has
been released. This GIMP variant is especially designed for converts: those
desiring to shuck Adobe Photoshop in favor of GIMP. However, it is based on
an older version of GIMP. GIMPshop features a GIMP menu structure adapted
from Photoshop, so its interface differs from the “original” GIMP.
Information about GIMPshop is available on Scott Moschella's website
at
http://www.gimpshop.com/download.shtml.
To download the program,
launch a Google search for “gimpshop”. The program is available as an
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