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Welcome to classic.gimp.org
You are currently looking at the old GIMP web site. Many talented contributors have worked on a new design and re-organized the pages in order to make it easier for you to find everything you need to know about the GIMP 2.0. That new web site is now available at www.gimp.org. This old site will be remain accessible for a few weeks or months as classic.gimp.org, but it will not be updated anymore.

What is The GIMP?
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It started as a program for UNIX written by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball, but it has since been improved by hundreds of developers and ported to other platforms such as Windows. To learn more about this program, just read on on this page.

Where can I get The GIMP?
Easy. From this site. Just look at the Download section. There you'll find the source code for the latest stable and the current development version. The source code of the GIMP is the official release supported by the GIMP developers. Pre-compiled binaries for various platforms may be available from other sites.

Bugs, bugs, bugs!
As any software, The GIMP is not free of bugs. Bugzilla can show you a list of open bugs (including the list of enhancement proposals). If you think you've found a new one, you can submit a bug report.

Also, specially instrumented builds for Red Hat Linux 9 are available from the Cooperative Bug Isolation Project. These builds send feedback that may help us find and fix bugs even faster.


What about GIMP for Windows?
This is the question we get the most mail about. Yes, there is GIMP for Windows. If you want to be able to install the GIMP easily on Windows, you can visit Jernej Simoncic's page and download his installer for GIMP for Windows.

>Fresh from the Press... Saturday, March 20th, 2004


GIMP 2.0 Release Parties
To celebrate the upcoming GIMP 2.0 release, GIMP release parties are being planned. The GIMP Wiki has a list of all parties. Choose one to join or add your GIMP release party.

Release candidate for GIMP 2.0
Today the last bugs on the 2.0 milestone have been fixed and the GIMP team is preparing the GIMP 2.0 release. The latest changes can be tested in the release candidate available from ftp.gimp.org or a mirror close to you.

Your help is needed...
We are collecting information about the upcoming GIMP 2.0 release. This material is supposed to be used for press releases and articles about GIMP 2.0. Here are a two links to our Wiki that should get you involved: WhatsNew, GimpPressPack. We are also looking for contacts to magazines that might be interested to cover the 2.0 release.

Snapshot of Help for GIMP 2.0
The gimp-help-2 project is writing user help for GIMP 2.0. It has come a long way already and there's now a first snapshot available from ftp.gimp.org.

GIMP FreeType Plug-In for GIMP 2.0
The text tool in GIMP 2.0 has improved a lot and in a lot of ways it is even superiour to the GIMP FreeType Plug-In. But there are still a few things that only the plug-in can do and that's why there's now a release for GIMP 2.0.

GIMP Plug-In Template 1.3.3
Some late changes in the GIMP 2.0 API made it necessary to do an updated 1.3 release of the GIMP Plug-In Template. You can grab an updated version at ftp.gimp.org.

GIMP Animation Package for GIMP 2.0
A first preview of GAP for GIMP 2.0 is now available from ftp.gimp.org. GIMP-GAP is a set of plug-ins for the GIMP 2.0 that extends GIMP for creation of animations based on a series of frame images. GIMP-GAP is the next development step of the Video Menu that once was part of gimp-1.2.