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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: August 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,839,035
- Downloads last week: 12,505
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 570 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 570 votes
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
"Outstanding!! Difficult to believe it's freeware."
Pros: So user-friendly, with wide spectrum of options.
Cons: Nothing I can discern thus far. GREAT program!
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
Pros: -Easy to learn, works on all platforms, can do a lot of stuff that other editors can't do.
Cons: -The separated windows are very annoying.
-Lack of some (a few) things that i got used with in Photoshop, but that's no problem, cause it has some other very good features.Summary: If you never learned to use a image editing software, this is the one that you should start with. It is the easiest to learn, and you can do a lot with it. It is also free, and a very good alternative to Photoshop for un-professionals.
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.6.7
"Malware that got into the registry"
Pros: Nothing, fooled by the word 'free'
Cons: Not a safe program for your computer. Damaging software!
Summary: ownloaded it, didn't like it. Uninstalled it and it took out part of the registry and McAfee was disabled by it and couldn't be turned back on. McAfee warned before the download but went ahead anyway..Many regrets!
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
"Excellent, powerful, FREE alternative to Photoshop"
Pros: Don't want to pay the outrageous amount of dollars Adobe wants for Photoshop? Want to support freeware? Want an excellent photo editing and graphics package? The GIMP is the way to go. Plenty of plug ins too, if you need even more flexibility.
Cons: Steep learning curve. Not aimed at the casual user.
Summary: A number of reviews have mentioned the GIMP as not being user friendly. I'd disagree with that, I'd say, rather, that the GIMP has a steep learning curve, but then so does Photoshop for the power user. If you are looking for a quick and easy progra... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.6.7
"Sorry Not using it Not user friendly"
Pros: It's Free, Somebody put time into creating it but not making it user friendly a big flop
Cons: Not user friendly
Summary: Not user friendly not what was hoping it to be, not got the time to try learning it.
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