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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 31, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,468,203
- Downloads last week: 6,963
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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. The latest update is robust enough to have earned a full-point upgrade, although it's merely a jump from 2.2 to 2.4.
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, and color operations such as levels. New improvements include scalable brushes, revised selection tools, a new color menu, full-screen editing, a new crop tool, improved printing, red eye removal, perspective clone, lens distortion, and more. 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 2.4.4 is a bug fixing release.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.4.4 is a bug fixing release.
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User reviews of GIMP 2.4.4
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 563 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.4.4
"Seems to be excellent software for the advanced user."
Pros: Lots of features! Lots of capabilities! FREE!!
Cons: As is the case with most open source software, this is NOT a novice user friendly program. It is an advanced program for advanced users, presumably with advanced features. There are forums, and there are more words written about using open source software than about proprietary software, but it is all written by geeks and on a geek level.
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Version: GIMP 2.4.4
"Great Image edit progarm with LOTS of features"
Pros: There is a lot of good stuff in this program. I've only had this for 4 days & it will take another 2 weeks to see all the features & another 2 weeks to try them all. S far so good.
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Version: GIMP 2.4.4
Pros: Before you go out and spend the ridiculous asking price for Adobe Photoshop of around $600, try this first. it's open source, so you know it's trustworthy, and it's every bit as good photoshop and more.
Cons: None
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Version: GIMP 2.4.4
"All the Power of Photoshop and its Free"
Pros: Not for beginners, but an easy way to learn is to get a photoshop guide book.
It does everything photoshop does and its free and you get free upgrades
Cons: It dosent cost $300
Its upgradable for life, without having to buy future revisions
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.4.4
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