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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: June 05, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,557,967
- Downloads last week: 8,870
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 562 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 2.4.6 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.4.6 is a bug-fixing release.
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User reviews of GIMP 2.4.6
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 562 votes
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.4.6
"great program bad customer support"
Pros: good program free of charge same features paint.net if you ask me
Cons: i instlled this program on my computer i didint want the gimp icon on all of my image icons i asked the company how can this be fixed & i was nice to the guy as a reminder he stated you obviasly dont know much about computers they where no help to me at all.
i had to go to bestbuy to get this fixed they where more helpful then customer service at gimp and no duh if i was good at computers i wouldnt be asking for you help to begin with idiot this guy is smarter than me & he couldnt figure out that i didnt know that much about computers when i asked question whos the idiot?
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Version: GIMP 2.4.6
Pros: I might be wrong but GIMP si like Photoshop, but FREE and EASY to work.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.4.6
"WOW! A GEM OF AN IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM!"
Pros: I'm a nut for good freeware and this one is another gem!
If you use Photo Shop or Corel you will find this not only comparable in versatility and functionality, but you will be kicking yourself in the rear for paying so much for what you can get with this - for free!
As with OpenOffice, this is an open-sourced program. There may be a few bugs but I haven't found any yet.
I'm not only thrilled to be able to find worthwhile programs like this for free, I am far happier donating a few bucks for the ride on this bus than shelling out hundreds for products that at best only match this one.
Cons: Just takes a bit getting use to. After you figure out the mechanics, it's go go go!
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1 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.4.6
"Best Alternative to Photoshop"
Pros: It has enough Photoshop Features to make it a very good image editing program.
Cons: Still doesn't have a lot of Photoshop's features.
Doesn't have an EXTENDED version with 3D features.
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Version: GIMP 2.4.6
Pros: Can give any commercial image editing programs a run for their money.
Cons: none
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