Glimpse is a downstream fork of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. You can find out more information on our FAQs page: https://glimpse-editor.org/about/

The GNU Image Manipulation Program is primarily intended for long-standing Linux enthusiasts and power users. We have rebranded and repackaged it for a wider audience, and we intend to make it much easier to deploy across schools, university campuses and workplaces. As the project develops we intend to focus on performance improvements, user interface changes and incrementally improving the user experience.

Glimpse Image Editor is a derivative work based on the GNU Image Manipulation Program source code, and it is shared under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.

For a detailed view of recent changes, check the NEWS file.

Glimpse 0.x releases are based on GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.10.x releases and are intended to provide a minimum viable product. They also help us build our project infrastructure, learn the codebase and iterate towards a fully supportable product.

You can see how this effort is going in the dev-g210 branch.

We also have a working group designing a completely new image editing program, but it will be quite a number of years before that effort comes to fruition.

Our official project website is now live at https://glimpse-editor.org.

You can also follow us on the fediverse, Facebook and Twitter.

All of the build instructions can be found in the HACKING file.

For further information, read the Glimpse developer wiki.

Full details for how to help are available in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

You can also help by talking about us on social media, writing a positive blog post and helping people use Glimpse Image Editor.

To help us cover our costs, please donate to this project via Open Collective. If you can afford to do so we also encourage you to donate to GNU Image Manipulation Program as that helps the upstream project we rely on.