Go to Applications, Graphics, GIMP Image Editor. Once installed you need to download BIMP, the Batch Image Manipulation Plugin, and install it (see Wikibooks GIMP/Installing Plugins for the details). This really is GIMP, the amazingly capable GNU Image Manipulation Program, running on your device. Installing GIMP is fast and painless so I won’t belabor it here. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists. GIMP, a free, open source image editor, that’s available for Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, BSD, and Solaris and one of its neat features is an automation plugin called BIMP (though you can also automate GIMP with Python which, like GIMP’s batch mode, is not for beginners). GIMP ( / mp / GHIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor 4 used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.

Then I remembered GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Another constraint (other than my reluctance to wrangle Photoshop) was the need to be able to do this in the future as part of a process to be built into a virtual machine running Linux. Short for GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP is an image editor that can legitimately trade blows with Adobe’s most popular offering. I know you can automate Photoshop but that’s like getting into a Sherman tank to go shopping at your local supermarket.

For a project I was recently working on I needed to remove the white background from several hundred images in PNG format and replace it with transparency.

Gnu image editor