
GIMP is also highly customizable and can be tailored to the user’s specific needs. These can be used to add new filters and effects, or to extend the capabilities of existing tools. One of the best things about GIMP is that of plug-ins and extensions, which can be used to add even more features and functionality to the program. GIMP also has support for creating animations, which can be exported as GIFs or video files. It has a variety of paint brushes and pencils, as well as tools for creating and manipulating vector graphics.

In addition to basic image editing, GIMP also comes preloaded with tools for creating digital art. The liquify tool can be used to warp and stretch parts of an image, and the smudge tool can be used to blend colors and create soft, smooth transitions. The clone tool can be used to remove unwanted elements from an image, and the heal tool can be used to fix blemishes and other imperfections. ahead-of-print.GIMP also sports a wide range of tools for retouching and restoring images. (2022), "A successful recipe for localization: a case of GIMP (GNU image manipulation program)", Journal of Indian Business Research, Vol. This paper has been awarded as one of the BEST PAPER during 12th Conference on Excellence in Research and Education, CERE-2022, IIM, Indore. Authors are thankful to review panel of CERE, IIM, Indore for giving useful remarks.


Manish Ratnakar Joshi is National Award winner for Outstanding work in Science and Technology Communication for the year 2018 by DST, India. The financial assistance is provided by Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha, Mumbai.

This work is the part of MOU between Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhary North Maharashtra University and Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha, Mumbai. The authors presented systematic steps used to localize the GIMP software in Marathi language (from 2% to 100%). This work is the pioneering work in this domain for Marathi language with respect to GIMP.
