The GNU Image Manipulation Program, known as GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor. It began as a student project by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis at the University of California, Berkeley, and was announced in late 1995. It became part of the GNU Project in 1997, and the toolkit created for it, GTK, later became the basis of many Linux desktop applications; the name originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is widely used as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop, runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, and can be extended with plugins and scripts. Its mascot is a creature called Wilber, and its native file format is XCF.
Before and after
- 18 October 1995Creation of OpenBSD
- 3 November 1995Birth of Kendall Jenner
- 12 November 1995Constitution of Azerbaijan
- 21 November 1995Dayton Agreement
- 21 November 1995Release of GIMP
- 22 November 1995Release of Toy Story
- December 1995The Hubble Deep Field
- 2 December 1995Launch of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
- 4 December 1995Creation of JavaScript
More in Science & technology
- 1945Discovery of promethium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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