Image editing software 'GIMP' celebrates its 25th anniversary

GIMP , known as 'free software with image editing capabilities comparable to Photoshop,' has celebrated its 25th anniversary.

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In 1995, Peter Matisse wrote a message to several newsgroups , 'Announcement of new image editing software.' This software was released in January 1996 as 'GIMP' (originally 'The GIMP').

Speaking of software with high-performance image editing ability, there are Adobe Photoshop etc., but as free software, GIMP is equipped with functions comparable to paid software such as Photoshop and has been used by many people. It was. There are various nicknames such as 'Photoshop for Linux', 'free Photoshop', 'that ugly software', and the development team has sincerely agreed with these names, with the last name at the top.

In addition, the GUI toolkit ' GTK ' created for GIMP UI development is also used in GNOME and Xfce .

Regarding the world that has changed over the last 25 years, GIMP's mascot Wilbur describes it as 'bigger, noisier, more demanding, not absolutely safe, but full of warmth and humanity.' .. He says he sees the waves rushing into the rocks of GIMP.

By the way, the above-mentioned 'GTK' is already about to upgrade from 'GTK 3' to 'GTK 4', but I couldn't make a good transition to the software and I'm stuck with 'GTK 2'. There are also things. The problem is that GIMP is still 'GTK 2', and the development team is working towards 'GIMP 3.0' based on 'GTK 3'.

At the time of writing the article, the official version is 2.10.22, and the development version for GTK 3 is 2.99.2.