GIMP - Forks and Derivative Software

Forks and Derivative Software

Several variations and derived graphic applications exist today. These applications can exist because GIMP is released under the GNU General Public License, GPL, which specifically allows anybody to take the source code and use it as they see fit, so long as they follow the rules laid out in the license. GIMP is available on many popular operating systems; even so, some variants of GIMP exist for OS-specific modifications.

The GIMP website only offers source code downloads; executable versions of GIMP are made available by other sources.

CinePaint

Formerly "Film Gimp", this is a fork of GIMP version 1.0.4, used for frame-by-frame retouching of feature film. The present version supports up to 32-bit IEEE-floating point color depth per channel. CinePaint supports color management and HDR. CinePaint is used primarily within the film industry due mainly to its support of high-fidelity image formats. The current release supports BSD, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X.

GIMP classic

is a patch against the 2.6.8 GIMP source code that was created to undo the changes made to the GIMP user interface between the 2.4 and 2.6 versions. A build of GIMP classic for Ubuntu is available. As of March 2011, a new patch can be downloaded from the sourceforge site that patches against the experimental 2.7 version of GIMP.

GIMP Portable

is a portable version of GIMP that can be installed on a USB hard drive such that brushes and presets are the same from one computer to the next. GIMP Portable is only portable between different computers running Microsoft Windows (XP or later).

GimPhoto and GIMPshop

Derivatives that aim to replicate the Adobe Photoshop in some form.

Instrumented GIMP (ingimp)

was created at the University of Waterloo to track and report user interaction with the program to generate statistics about how GIMP is used.

Seashore, GIMP.app and GIMP on OS X

Derivatives and releases of GIMP targeted for various releases of Mac OS.