GIMPs original creators , Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis , began developing GIMP in 1995 as a semester-long project at the University of California , Berkeley . The first public release of GIMP was made in January 1996 .
The GIMP was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now taken care of by a group of volunteers as part of the GNU Project .
The GIMP was started in 1985 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and is now taken care of by a corporate team as part of the Apple Project.