I'm not talking about the guy locked in the basement of your house. Gimp is a versatile graphics manipulation package. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
I use Gimp for making forum signatures and banners like the one at the top of this page. Of course Photoshop is an excellent program as well but its not free. Here are a couple links to get you started using Gimp.
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