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images, or line drawings, are also an essential part of the PC toolkit, and openSUSE Linux
has a couple of tools worth talking about as well.
Editing Photos with The GIMP
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) use to be touted as the ???killer app??? that
would drive ordinary desktop users to Linux. A professional image editor whose features
rivaled the fabled Adobe Photoshop on Windows but that didn??™t cost several hundred
dollars is just what people needed, some analysts thought. It didn??™t happen exactly that
way, but it remains reasonable to say that Linux for the masses wouldn??™t be here if not for
The GIMP.
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To learn more about the role of The GIMP and the toolkit that spawned dozens of GUI
products, see the section on GNOME in Chapter 6.
Photographers, animators, web designers, and other artists use The GIMP in all sorts of
ways. The nonhuman characters in the Scooby Doomovies were created with the help of a
GIMP spinoff now called CinePaint.
So what can you do with The GIMP? Just about any photo or other graphic-editing task.


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