Editing Raster graphics editor (section)

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[[File:Darktable 4.4.2 with an image opened in darkroom view.png|thumb|[[Darktable]], a raw photo post-processing application]]
[[File:Gimp 2.4.3.png|thumb|[[GIMP]], a feature-rich general-purpose raster graphics editor]]
A '''raster graphics editor''' (also called '''bitmap graphics editor''') is a [[computer program]] that allows users to [[Computer graphics|create]] and [[image editing|edit]] images interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many [[raster graphics]] [[Image file formats|file formats]] (also known as [[bitmap]] images) such as [[JPEG]], [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]], and [[GIF]].