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GIMP is the most popular image editing application for Linux and the biggest open source competitor to Adobe Photoshop. Despite some differences in appearance and functionality of the two, GIMP is often recommended to Linux newcomers as 'the Photoshop alternative'. Welcome to Gimp.cc another alternative website for downloading GNU Image Manipulation Program for Windows, Linux, and MacOs. This website developed by web design professionals who actually use GIMP in their day to day tasks. GIMP is a short form for GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Current Stable VersionThe current stable release of GIMP is 2.10.22 (2020-10-04).

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Get it on our development downloads page.
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GIMP for Unix-like systems If available, the official package from your Unix-like distribution is the recommended method of installing GIMP!
 The flatpak build is new and has known limitations, though it will likely provide faster updates, following GIMP releases closely. 
 Therefore choose your installation medium according to your needs. 
 Flatpak build available in: x86-64, ARM and AArch64. 
Flatpak additional instructionsThe flatpak link above should open your software installer and prompt you to install GIMP. Yet it may not work out-of-the-box on some platforms since the flatpak technology is new. If that is the case, ensure flatpak is installed and if clicking the link still does not prompt to install GIMP, then manually install by command line: 
flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
 Once installed, it will be made available exactly the same way as other applications (menus, desktop overview, or any specific application launch process used by your desktop). 
 If this is not the case, we suggest to report a bug to your desktop or distribution asking for proper support of flatpak. In the meantime, you can still run it by command line (not as the recommended method, only a workaround): 
flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//stable
 This installation will also provide regular update. You don't have to come back on this page and install again (it will not work!) when a new version of GIMP is released. Instead if your distribution and/or desktop has a good support for flatpak, it should propose to perform updates. 
 Once again, if your distribution does not have proper support, you can always fall back to using the following command line: 
flatpak update
Systems without flatpak support GIMP can also run on Solaris and is available for the BSD family of systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. 
 Please refer to the documentation for your Unix-like system on the installation of software. 
GIMP for macOSUpdated on 2020-12-24: GIMP 2.10.22 DMG revision 1
 GIMP 2.10.22 build for macOS - has known performance issues on Big Sur 
 The download links above will attempt to download GIMP from one of our trusted mirror servers. If the mirrors do not work or you would rather download directly from our server, you can get the direct download here. 
 Supported OS: macOS 10.9 Mavericks or over 
Since the 2.8.2 version, GIMP runs on OSX natively. No X11 environment is required.
Native buildThe official GIMP 2.10 DMG installer (linked above) is a stock GIMP build without any add-ons. Just open the downloaded DMG and drag and drop GIMP into your 'Applications' folder.
 The SHA256 hash sum for gimp-2.10.22-x86_64-1.dmg is: c57f0203a89bd347c5b5958a79754debf33a9b458bdba68fa0788e22f4cc8fae
 Check it on VirusTotal: gimp-2.10.22-x86_64-1.dmg
Older DownloadsPrevious installers for OSX can be found here: download.gimp.org.
Macports An easy way to compile and install GIMP and other great Free software on your Mac is by using Macports. The installer allows you to choose from a large directory of packages. To install gimp using Macports, you simply do sudo port install gimp once you have Macports installed. 
 Last we checked, the GIMP port file pointed to the current stable release and we have reports from people who've built GIMP successfully this way. 
Homebrew Homebrew is similar to Macports and provides packages (aka formulas) to install, either by compiling them from source or by using pre-made binaries. There are indications that there is now a formula for GIMP, installable with: brew tap homebrew/cask && brew cask install gimp. 
NOTE! Please be aware that it was announced recently that Homebrew is using analytics. To turn this off in homebrew then run: brew analytics off
 You can read more about this on Brew Analytics. 
Fink Fink is a package repository that offer mostly precompiled binaries. It provides the apt-get command known to e.g. Debian and Ubuntu users, and installing GIMP is as easy as sudo apt-get install gimp once you have installed the Fink installer. 
 If there's no binary package, then fink install gimp will compile GIMP from source. 
 Disclaimer: we haven't been able to determine if it is possible to install or build recent GIMP from Fink. Last we checked, GIMP 2.6.12 appears to be the most recent GIMP package that is offered there. 
GIMP for Windows The download links above will attempt to download GIMP from one of our trusted mirror servers. If the mirrors do not work or you would rather download directly from our server, you can get the direct download here. 
 Supported OS: Windows 7 or over 
 These links download the official GIMP installer for Windows (~200 MB). The installer contains both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of GIMP, and will automatically use the appropriate one. 
 BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing system. It works by downloading GIMP from a distributed network of BitTorrent users, and may improve download speed dramatically. Choosing this option will download the torrent file for the GIMP installer. You may need to install a torrent client to make use of this file. Learn more...
Hash Sum The SHA256 hash sum for gimp-2.10.22-setup.exe is: f7851c348584ce432dfd8e69b74a168c7dec33ebfddc29c96ad2d6b83aded083
 Check it on VirusTotal: gimp-2.10.22-setup.exe
Older Downloads Previous v2.10 installers for Windows can be found here: download.gimp.org. 
 Previous v2.8 installers for Windows can be found here: download.gimp.org. 
GIMP User Manual These links download language-specific Windows installers for GIMP's local help. By default, they will place the help files with your GIMP installation. 
 Note: GIMP uses online help by default. If you want to use this local help offline, you will need to change GIMP's help settings. 
In GIMP, select [Edit] > [Preferences] > [Help System]
For 'User manual', select 'Use a locally installed copy'
Under 'Help Browser', you can choose between your system's web browser and GIMP's help browser plugin (if available).
 See the online help for more settings. 
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Source for version 2.10 (Stable)GIMP releases available from gimp.org and its mirrors contain the source code and have to be compiled in order to be installed on your system.
For instructions, how to build GIMP from source code, please see this page.
GIMP 2.10.22 is now available at https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.10/. You may want to read the Release Notes for GIMP 2.10.
To allow you to check the integrity of the tarballs, here are the hashes of the latest releases:
gimp-2.10.22.tar.bz2 (sha256): 2db84b57f3778d80b3466d7c21a21d22e315c7b062de2883cbaaeda9a0f618bbgimp-2.10.20.tar.bz2 (sha256): e12f9f874b1a007c4277b60aa81e0b67330be7e6153e5749ead839b902fc7b3cgimp-2.10.18.tar.bz2 (sha256): 65bfe111e8eebffd3dde3016ccb507f9948d2663d9497cb438d9bb609e11d716gimp-2.10.16.tar.bz2 (sha256): cbf9fe9534b913a9487b00cd9710cbc569bfd71fdd2f8c321547701a7d70cbebgimp-2.10.14.tar.bz2 (sha256): df9b0f11c2078eea1de3ebc66529a5d3854c5e28636cd25a8dd077bd9d6ddc54gimp-2.10.12.tar.bz2 (sha256): 7d80b58e0784120d57d327294f6a1fda281ff51a61935c2cd764da281acaac71gimp-2.10.10.tar.bz2 (sha256): 12d1f243265c7aee1f2c6e97883a5c90ddc0b19b4346cf822e24adbb6c998c77gimp-2.10.8.tar.bz2 (sha256): d849c1cf35244938ae82e521b92b720ab48b8e9ed092d5de92c2464ef5244b9bgimp-2.10.6.tar.bz2 (sha256): 4ec8071f828e918384cf7bc7d1219210467c84655123f802bc55a8bf2415101fgimp-2.10.4.tar.bz2 (sha256): ffb0768de14a2631b3d7ed71f283731441a1b48461766c23f0574dce0706f192gimp-2.10.2.tar.bz2 (sha256): 1cb0baaecdefe44d371a15f2739a1bcbce4682336b4ccf8eb7b587ce52c333ebgimp-2.10.0.tar.bz2 (sha256): 7fcc96fb88cb0a0595d2610f63a15dec245bb37bf9db527d37a24fb75e547de2 GIMP help files are available at https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/help/. 
 Please consider using one of the mirrors listed below. 
Development snapshotsWe now have a separate page for development versions of GIMP.
Want to check out the GIMP 2.99.4 development release?
Get it on our development downloads page.
FTP and Web Mirrors We had a server move a while back that caused us to lose our existing mirrors (moved from physical to virtual server and to an environment that doesn't allow FTP access). On the plus side, we are now able to offer rsync access to download.gimp.org. 
 If you are running one of the existing GIMP mirrors, or want to create a new one, please contact us to get your rsync credentials. 
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GIMP plugins are usually written either in Python or as Script-Fu extensions. Some plugins can be installed from the repositories, some have to be compiled, but most are really easy to install: you just copy the plugin (with .py extension) or script file (.scm file) into your/home/$USERNAME/.gimp/plug-insor/home/$USERNAME/.gimp/scriptsfolder, respectively, and restart GIMP.
Note that you need to install Python support for GIMP (thegimp-pythonpackage; should be available in your distro's repositories) if you want to use Python-based plugins.
As you can already tell, this article is focused on the Linux version of GIMP, but Windows users can also use all these plugins; the installation instructions can be found on plugins' official websites. Of course,all GIMP plugins on this list are completely freeto download, install and use.
1. Layer via Copy/CutThis plugin introduces a function from Photoshop into GIMP, and it's very practical if you're a designer or if you often work with layers. It can copy, move and cut selected areas from one layer or a group of layers, and create new layers from selected areas. Once it's installed, you can access this plugin from the 'Layers' menu.
2. BIMP – Batch Image Manipulation PluginBIMP is one of my favorite GIMP plugins – it's incredibly practical and simple to use. It will save you time if you need to edit multiple images at once. You can resize, crop, rotate, rename and watermark as many images as you want, and changes can be previewed in the plugin dialog.
3. BeautifyBeautify is a plugin that aggregates several photo effects and editing options into a single, straightforward interface, and turns your GIMP into a photo retouching studio. You can use it to give your photos a dash of glamour, correct color and contrast issues, and apply Instagram-like filters to yourselfies.
4. Contrast FixBadly lit photographs happen more often than we would like to admit. Whether your photo is too dark or too bright, Contrast Fix is a GIMP plugin that can save it. Experiment with the settings for the best result, and don't forget that you can run the plugin more than once on the same image.
5. LensfunThis useful plugin will help you fix lens distortion on your images. It detects the type of your camera and the lens you used by reading the EXIF data, but you can change these settings in the plugin dialog. After you've installed the plugin, you can find it in theFilters – Enhancemenu.
6. RefocusSometimes photos turn out blurry and out of focus. Maybe you've taken them in a hurry, or your hands were really shaky. Doesn't matter, because Refocus will try to fix them with a special method called FIR Wiener filtering. You can adjust the parameters in the plugin dialog and preview what the final image will look like.
7. Stitch PanoramaThere are great standalone Linux tools for making panoramic images, but if you want to do that directly in GIMP, this plugin is your best bet. You can stitch together multiple images, and perform blending, distortion matching and color correction if necessary.
Gimp For Web Developers Developer8. UFRawUFRaw is a great GIMP plugin for professional photographers. It provides support for editing RAW images in GIMP, and you can use it to control exposure, color balance and temperature, and perform various image corrections. The plugin also has a batch workflow mode in which you can edit many photos at once.
9. Liquid RescaleLiquid Rescale is a powerful plugin for GIMP that lets you resize any image without distortion, as well as remove selected parts of the image. If you're familiar with Photoshop's Content-Aware Scaling feature, you'll understand what this plugin is for. There's a helpful preview window within the plugin dialog which you can use to interactively tweak the parameters. When installed successfully, Liquid Rescale can be found in the 'Layers' menu.
10. Separate+Separate+ is a simple but essential GIMP plugin, especially for designers. It lets you convert between different colorspaces (RGB, CMYK…), set the ICC profile of your monitor and perform some color-related adjustments on images.
11. G'MIC (GREYC's Magic for Image Computing)G'MIC is probably the most popular GIMP plugin and rightfully so. It's an image processing framework that contains hundreds of presets, filters and effects you can apply to your images. You can access them in the 'Filters' menu, and if you'd like to test G'MIC before installation, there's a completely usable online version that runs in your browser. How cool is that?
12. ResynthesizerResynthesizer is an exceptional plugin that every serious GIMP user should install. With this plugin, you can remove objects from photos, repeat textures for better tiling or seamless image healing, and transfer textures from one image to another. Have you heard of Content Aware Fill in Photoshop? Well, Resynthesizer is used for the same purpose, and apparently GIMP had it long before Photoshop.
13. Save for WebThis plugin is an absolute must for web designers, bloggers and anyone who needs to prepare visual materials for the Web. I use it every day, and honestly, I don't know what I would do without it. Save for Web lets you compress, scale, smooth and crop images before uploading them, ensuring that they are not too big for your website. You can find it in GIMP's 'File' menu.
Gimp Website14. Wavelet DenoiseThis valuable plugin will help you reduce noise in your photos caused by low light or incorrect camera settings. You can tweak the parameters and preview changes in the plugin dialog.
15. WatermarkSadly, content theft happens very often on the Internet, and it's virtually unstoppable. However, there are ways in which you can at least try to protect your digital art, and watermarks are one of them. This simple plugin lets you add watermark text to your images, with some basic adjustments like fonts, size and position of the watermark. Find it in the Script-Fu – MyScripts menu.
16. Elsamuko's FiltersThis valuable collection of photo filters is something you can't work without if you're a professional photographer, and even average GIMP users will be delighted by its versatility. Included is the famous 'National Geographic' photo effect that will give your photos a classy touch. You can download and install all scripts at once, or just choose the ones you like from the plugin website.
17. FX FoundryAnother massive collection of effects and scripts to manipulate your photos, FX Foundry will create its own menu in GIMP from which you can access all its features. Every effect has its own dialog where you can fine-tune the settings before modifying your images.
18. Script-Fu Bundle & GIMPressionistHere are some more scripts and effects for you to try out. Script-Fu Bundle gathers a bunch of different effects which you can use to turn your photos into paintings, make them sharper, add frames, modify saturation and much, much more. The GIMPressionist is a plugin that comes with its own presets and filters, but some scripts from the Script-Fu Bundle can be imported and controlled from it.
19. Palette GeneratorThis plugin is yet another must-have for designers, since it lets you easily generate color palettes with the help of adjustable criteria. Of course, you could use free, online tools for this, but if you prefer keeping your workflow simple, you'll appreciate the ability to do it directly in GIMP.
20. Filter PackFilter Pack is a plugin that comes with GIMP by default, proving once again how awesome GIMP is. You can access it from the 'Colors' menu, and it lets you adjust color settings for the entire image or just the selected part. Checking the boxes under 'Windows' opens separate windows with variations of your image, and here you can click on each variation to apply (and intensify) its effect on the image.
If you want all these plugins, but don't feel like installing them one by one, here's a pro-tip: Debian, Ubuntu and Arch users can install the gimp-plugin-registry package from their repositories. The package contains almost all GIMP plugins from this list, including Liquid Rescale, Save for Web and the mighty FX Foundry.