GIMP

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It can be used as a simple paint tool, photo retouching and general image manipulation.

Installation
If the GIMP help pages (documentation) is desired, then also emerge the package:

USE flags
Valid USE flags options include:

A full list of all USE linguas can be seen by using the equery tool (part of ):

Plugins
For some GIMP plugins that are included in the Portage tree, please see the GIMP Plugins sub-article.

Non white on black fonts look terrible


If your non white fonts look terrible in GIMP, you might try to turn off sub-pixel hinting for GIMP. You can do this by creating a in the GIMP user configuration directory (e.g. ).

External resources

 * Arch Linux Forum post - a proposed solution for wrong looking fonts in GIMP