GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. At over ten years old, its history merges itself with the development of a Free Desktop Environment, having first provided the basis for projects such as gtk+, gutemprint and other graphic programs. It is a free program distributed under the GPLv2 suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It is usually pre-installed in all major Desktop GNU/Linux distributions and available in other Platforms such as Microsoft's Windows. GIMP is a Free Software, high-end photo manipulation application that supports creating original art from images; a high-end application for producing icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements and also works as a platform for programming cutting-edge image processing algorithms, by scientists and artists. With the advent and spreading of digital pictures and imagery, being able to edit and change photos in a computer became a major task on the daily usage of personal computers. Everyone having at home tools far more powerful than those available to professional photographers for decades. Most pictures hardware do offer a gratis program with basic picture manipulation facilities - but one of the main purposes of Free Software is exactly to end the artificial restrictions of features and capabilities of any software. Therefore, GIMP provides a fully featured image manipulation environment available for everyone, and we have a goal of making it each time richer. Currently, GIMP is undergoing a deep change in its rendering core, which is being replaced by the Generic Graphics Library - GEGL. GEGL while being developed by members of the GIMP team and community and is also a modular and independent graph based image processing framework, with bindings to other languages. It aims to provide GIMP with a lot of currently missing high-end features such as non-destructive editing, deep color depth support, HDR, and macro recording.