Glimpse is an open source image editor based on the GIMP 2.10.18 with multiple improvements. It has added keyboard shortcuts and settings from PhotoGIMP. Which will help you to easier transition from using paid image editing softwares.

This tutorial will help you to install Glimpse image editor on a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system.

Prerequisites

You must have a running Ubuntu 20.04 system with sudo privileged account access.

Installing Glimpse on Ubuntu

Glimpse image editor is available as snap package. The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS systems already have Snap package manage tool installed.

Press CTRL ALT T to open a terminal on your system. Then execute the following command to install Glimpse on a Ubuntu Linux system.

sudo snap install glimpse-editor 

After successful installation, you will see the below result on screen.

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Access Glimpse Editor

Search for glimpse under the all applications. You will see the Glimpse launcher icon as shown below.

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Click on the launcher icon to start Glimpse image editor on your system.

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Glimpse is ready to use. Lets have design awesome images with Glimpse editor on Ubuntu system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned about to install Glimpse Image Editor on a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux system.