

The acronym was coined first, with the letter G being added to -IMP as a reference to "the gimp" in the scene from the 1994 Pulp Fiction film. In 1996 was the initial public release of GIMP (0.54). The editor was quickly adopted and a community of contributors formed.

The community began developing tutorials, artwork and shared better work-flows and techniques. In the following year, Kimball and Mattis met with Richard Stallman of the GNU Project while he visited UC Berkeley and asked if they could change General in the application's name to GNU (the name of the operating system created by Stallman), and Stallman approved. The application subsequently formed part of the GNU software collection. The first release supported Unix systems, such as Linux, SGI IRIX and HP-UX. Since then, GIMP has been ported to other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows (1997, GIMP 1.1) and macOS.Ī GUI toolkit called GTK (at the time known as the GIMP ToolKit) was developed to facilitate the development of GIMP. The development of the GIMP ToolKit has been attributed to Peter Mattis becoming disenchanted with the Motif toolkit GIMP originally used. Ġ.54 features some improvements over earlier versions and many bug fixes. Also made a slight modification to the way the file overwrite dialog works. New memory manager with disk caching of tiles to support large images. New plug-in/extension API and introduction of the Procedural Database (PDB). Introduction of tabs and docks system, improvements to Script-Fu scripting, text re-editing, CMYK color support. Plugin support, keyboard shortcut editor, previews for transform tools. Improvements to Drag/drop and copy/paste to other applications.Ĭolor management support, scalable brushes, new and rewritten selection tools and crop tools.

#Gimp mac os x el capitan full#
Many user interface changes including full screen editing and a new icon theme. Improved interface for external device input. Old version, no longer maintained: 2.7 (dev) Partial implementation of GEGL, and first iteration of UI re-design. Removed the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to Preferences. Single-window mode, layer groups, tool improvements. Old version, no longer maintained: 2.9 (dev) Revamped user interface.įull use of GEGL, including for filters.
#Gimp mac os x el capitan pdf#
Optimizations and multi-threading for painting and display, themes rewritten, gradient tool improved, Initial DDS support, better curve tools, new 3D Transform Tool, PSD support with 16-bit export and PDF plugin with multi pages support. Which means most devices made prior to 2008 won’t be able to run it.GeoTIFF Metadata support, "Negative Darkroom" for negatives. iMac – all models from mid 2007, iMac 7,1 – 12,1.
#Gimp mac os x el capitan install#
You’ll need a 64bit Intel processor, 8GBs of free disk space – if upgrading as appose to clean install min. Apple will release their new operating system OS X 10.10 Yosemite between September-November this year.Īt this stage of the game the new OSX will run on pretty much the same machines as its predecessor OSX 10.9 Mavericks.
