Image Editing With The Gimp - Raspberry Pi User Manual

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created on the Pi in OpenOffice .org with users of older software, remember to change the
format to ensure that everyone can open the files . Alternatively, you could convince them to
install OpenOffice .org themselves, which is available free for Linux, Windows and OS X .

Image Editing with The Gimp

OpenOffice .org is a powerful piece of software, but one area where it lacks is in image edit-
ing . Although OpenOffice .org Draw is a powerful tool for illustrative work, unfortunately,
you can't use it to touch up digital photographs . These are known as bitmapped images, and
are very different to the vector images Draw is designed to edit .
For image editing, one of the most powerful tools available for Linux is the GNU Image
Manipulation Program, usually referred to as The Gimp . The Gimp is one of the most popular
projects in open source, because it offers powerful features for editing bitmapped images
with a user interface that is similar to the interface that's used by the commercial Adobe
Photoshop package (see Figure 8-3) .
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Figure 8-3:
The Gimp
running on the
Raspberry Pi