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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: August 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,821,018
- Downloads last week: 22,701
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 563 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The volunteer developers of The GIMP have been working hard to develop a polished, user-friendly, and freely distributed image editor. Although the separated palette windows may disturb those users who are used to more traditional layouts, your comfort level should grow exponentially as you discover how pain-free the program is.
One of the most powerful general-purpose image editors around, the upgrades make the GNU Image Manipulation Program eminently comparable to Photoshop. Older features include channels, layers and masks, filters and effects, tabbed palettes, editable text tools, perspective clone, improved printing, and color operations such as levels. New improvements include GEGL integration for 32-bit color support, dynamic brushes, and more options for the free select tool. It even has regex-based pattern matching for power users.
The application provides professional tools that can stand against the big boys without the hefty price tag. Even the installation process has gotten simpler, with no need to download and install the GTX Runtime Environment separately. Extremely powerful and easy to work with, GIMP is ideal for both amateur and pro photographers, Web designers, or anyone who wants to create and edit professional-quality digital images on a budget.
Publisher's description
From Gimp :GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
Version 2.6.7 is a bug-fixing release.
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Version 2.6.7 is a bug-fixing release.
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- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 563 votes
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
Pros: it's FREE.. and that's all I see as the big attraction
Cons: not user friendly...
Summary: I'll stick with Paint Shop Pro X2 Ultimate.. been a long time PSP user from the days when JASC had it... it may not have every essential but for the basics --and a bit more--it is fast... e-z to use.. user friendly...
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
"Great graphic design program"
Pros: Can import and save most formats, lots of great filters.
Cons: I never learned to work with layers & masks
Summary: If you don't want to pay for Photoshop, the GIMP is the program to try!
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
"Great Program, Great Price, FREE"
Pros: Powerful, Easy to use, FREE, Interface is nice and program seems polished.
Cons: Really, I have not found anything I don't like. It's all around a great program and you can't beat the price.
Summary: If you need an editor for photos and such this is a great program to do all you need and it's FREE. I have had a few different versions of Photoshop starting with my first one 3.0 way back and I can tell you, I won't be paying for another. This pr... read more >>
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
Pros: Everything about this powerful freak show called The Gimp is great!
Besides the program its self, it has a huge user base and there are a million tutorials on the web! It is surpassed only by Photoshop...seriously! It's fricking FREE? WOW!!Cons: Not as user friendly as Photoshop and has a hard time with very large 300dpi images larger than the standard dimensions, we're talking feet not inches here.
It has a substantial learning curve. But as they say, nothing good comes easy!Summary: Brilliant Freeware that is better than 99% of all graphics programs, both free and for pay. Second only to Photoshop in overall experience and function. You really can't find another program around that is as good as The Gimp. I am a professional Gr... read more >>
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
"One-Stop Tool for all your Image edit & creation needs"
Pros: - Make &/or add your own fonts & Brushes with ease
- opens a multitude of image file formats and saves files in a ton of formats too!
- a ton of great tools at your fingertips
- Usuable on many OS platforms
- freeCons: - new releases have bugs that don't get fixed as fast as
other programs, but i am always up for sticking it out until
the fix arrives.Summary: Too many people complain that it's not like Photoshop and they can't do something without really playing with it long enough to see that GIMP DOES do it. You can copy/paste an image into a layer of a project your working on and move it around, scale... read more >>
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