一个免费的、分布式的图片润饰、图象制作和处理软件，内含几乎所有图象处理所需的功能，号称Linux下的PhotoShop。GIMP在Linux系统推出时就风靡了许多绘图爱好者的喜爱，它的接口相当轻巧，但其功能却不输于专业的绘图软件；它提供了各种的影像处理工具、滤镜，还有许多的组件模块，对于要制作一个又酷又炫的网页按钮或网站Logo来说是一个非常方便好用的绘图软件，因为它也提供了许多的组件模块，你只要稍加修改一下，便可制作出一个属于你的网页按钮或网站Logo。

更新日志：

• added support for a registration color in the Decompose plug-in
• the Align tool now also aligns to guides
• allow use CSS color notation in s cript-Fu
• more work on the new selection tools
• let Fractal Explorer work on grayscale and give it a larger preview
• speed up value Invert plug-in
• added strong undo/redo functions bound to Shift-Ctrl-[ZY]
• use radio items for the image mode menu
• applied Tango style on the default iconset
• added plug-in for colormap manipulation
• allow plug-ins to register in Layers, Channels, Vectors and Colormap dialog
• added load plug-in to open desktop links
• removed print plug-ins and started work on a replacement using the
  new GTK+ Print API
• added replacements for gimp_foo_select widgets, akin to GimpFontSelectButton
• introduced translation context to a number of colliding strings
• bug fixes and code cleanup