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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5
- Date added: October 13, 2008
- Total Downloads: 133,276
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 31 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 2.6.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 2.6.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of GIMP 2.6.1
- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 31 votes
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Version: GIMP 2.6.1
"One of the best known and easy to use picture editors"
Pros: Cross platform, solaris, linux, MAC.
High Quality, lots of options, many formats, very powerful editing capabilities.Cons: Not initially as intuitive as some other programs, but it does not take long to learn.
Summary: Key thing for installation on MAC is to update your X11 binaries. This was easy to do, is freeware and the GIMP instructions tell you where to get it from.
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Version: GIMP 2.6.1
Pros: dont know as it didnt work
Cons: as above didnt work
Summary: could not test it as it would not run on my mac
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Version: GIMP 2.6.1
"Far to difficult for first timer"
Pros: cant find any pros
Cons: kept crashing my system. Far to many things to remember. Interface well complicated, especially for a newbee
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Version: GIMP 2.6.1
"I found this very hard for an amateur"
Pros: I couldn't find much except for the delete list history. That was a nice feature.
Cons: Hard to save and use!!!
Summary: Difficult to use and even more difficult to uninstall.
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