

By default, GIMP opens up in an undocked window mode as shown on my desktop in Figure D below. The first time I ran GIMP it took about a minute or more to fully load the application and plug-ins, once the initial "Startup" completed, I shut it down and then GIMP loaded much faster on successive attempts. Next, find the shortcut and open the GIMP application and wait for it to load. The default installation path on Win OS is C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\. Once the file is downloaded on the Win OS, just double-click the exe file (gimp-2.8.2-setup-1.exe), select your language, and then click to install. FTP and Web Mirrors are also available from 75 individual sites in twenty two countries. The GIMP User Manual is available in twenty languages including English, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. If you are running Ubuntu and Debian flavors, from the command interface, simply run "apt-get install gimp" to get the latest stable release. It's a stable program, showing average crashes only once in a three month period. Norton Internet Security file insight for the download confirms tens of thousands of users have successfully obtained a copy the current file is mature and has been available for about three months as of this writing. The current Win download pulls from SourceForge and weighs in at 76.9MB so be ready for a long duration if your Internet connection bandwidth is on the low end. The current download as of this writing is GIMP 2.8.2 for Windows XP SP3 systems and higher, and for Unix-like systems, it is highly likely that they may already have a version available. It's available for free for download distribution software that allows you to retouch photos, create image composition and image authoring. If you have been searching for a new image editing tool, then the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) might be the one you need for graphic and image editing from.
