GNUIMP

Monday the snow made me experiment with the program on the computer here.. Mostly I was trying to decide should I keep this program or that.. And in this case it was the picture manipulator program called GIMP..  Which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program..  What is strange is upon opening it up the program is essentially two  blocks on the screen. not a complete program like Adobe Photoshop or Pdotnet... So I rarely use GIMP mostly because of a completely different reason than the one that presented itself yesterday.. There are a lot of cool effects that they have on their program and I used one of them, Lava and it really was seriously cool looking.. Then I "saved as.." and it saved as a file that can't be viewed by anything I have.. XCF file format.. And to convert it to a jpg or anything else I would have to use a program that I have no idea what it would be.. Makes the program obsolete.. So is it the latest version??  Yes, I got it Monday as a way to really try it to see if it could be kept for any reason.. That answer would be no, but I am going to see if there is any reason to keep it.. Maybe I overlooked something on the "save as.." step.. Like Adobe Image Ready where it can be "saved as.."  everything but what you want.. And Adobe Photoshop which has pretty much every file format you could want.. PdN as well has every format.. And Fast stone which even has the RAW and the larger files..


https://www.gimp.org/   Gimp is programmed by people.. I'd love to add a few DLL  to it but have no idea how to program, but if it could have plugins from PdN I would love to do that, but I'm sure it uses it's own coding.. Paint dot net uses .NET in windows.. GIMP uses C, C++, perl, python and so many more.. Good for them, still doesn't help me..


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