This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems.

Oct 5, 2025 · GIMP's user manual can be dowloaded separately on the documentation website either as language-specific Windows installers or as source tarball. The manual can also be browsed online

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.

You don’t have to be a developer to participate to the GIMP project. Some team members help with design, community management, bug triaging… and some help with documentation and tutorials!

GIMP User Manual ¶ GIMP comes with a built-in help system, available in dozens of languages. Once you have started the program, press F1 for context-sensitive help. You may have to install the help …

Mar 16, 2025 · At long last, the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members (for reference, GIMP …

After seven years of active development, we are proud to announce the next major release of GIMP – GIMP 3.0! While the original focus was on updating to a newer GUI library, this release is packed …

Online user manuals and quick reference guides for the GNU Image Manipulation Program

Jan 12, 2026 · High bit depth GIMP’s floating point Exposure operation: much better than Curves for lightening the shadows and midtones of an image without blowing the highlights

Oct 6, 2025 · We are happy to announce the third micro-release GIMP 3.0.6. During our development of GIMP 3.2 we’ve found and fixed a number of bugs and regressions. We have backported many of …