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 …

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 …

3 days ago · 1. 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 2. A step …

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 …

Mar 16, 2025 · All downloads are around 50 MB in size. Note: GIMP uses online help by default, which is updated daily. If you want to use this local help offline, you will need to change …

Clicking on one of them will open the desired user manual topic. Depending on your help preferences this will open either the local or online user manual, either in your browser or in …

Introduction 1. Welcome to GIMP 1.1. Known Platforms 1.2. History of GIMP 1.3. GIMP's Help system 1.4. Features and Capabilities 2. What's new in GIMP 2. Starting GIMP 1. Running …

The online user manuals are updated once a day. After each language (except the US English manual), it lists the completion status, i.e. what percentage of the manual has been translated. …

When using GIMP, context sensitive help is available by pressing the F1 key while the mouse is on top of a menu item or other part of GIMP's interface. Most dialogs will also show a help …

In addition to a stack of layers, a GIMP image may contain a selection mask, a set of channels, and a set of paths. In fact, GIMP provides a mechanism for attaching arbitrary pieces of data, …