GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Licence Type: Freeware

Operating Systems Support:Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 4.x,WinXP,Windows2000,Windows2003

Download Link: The Gimp

Developers Homepage: The Gimp Team

It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Editors Note: The downlaodable .zip file includes both the installer for The Gimp plus The Gimp Runtime library 2.6.7. You must install the runtime library first.