Hardware acceleration

The Playground settings are only available if you have explicitly started GIMP with the “--show-playground” command line argument, or if you have previously enabled one of the experimental settings in Playground.

Use OpenCL

OpenCL is an acronym for Open Computing Language (see Wikipedia). This option tries to improve the processing speed of certain operations by using the GPU (graphic processing unit) instead of the CPU.

	Atenção
	This is a very experimental feature that is known to crash often! Only enable this if you intend to work on improving it and don't forget that you enabled it.

Experimental

N-Point Deformation Tool

This tool lets you create a rubber-like deformation of the image using points.

Seamless Clone Tool

This tool lets you seamlessly paste one image into another.

Paint Select Tool

This tool lets you paint over an image to progressively create a selection.