- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: February 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,522,376
- Downloads last week: 8,744
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 580 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. GIMP 2.6.5 is a bug-fixing release.
What's new in this version:
GIMP 2.6.5 is a bug-fixing release.
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User reviews of GIMP 2.6.5
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 580 votes
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Version: GIMP 2.6.5
Pros: it is ok ok ok ok
Cons: nothing evriting is god
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Version: GIMP 2.6.5
"one of the better freeware image editors"
Pros: easy to use
Cons: interface isn't exactly made for small desktops
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Version: GIMP 2.6.5
Pros: It has a interface that is easy to see and with a little give and take will do pretty much what you want it to do. Is much better for CC for the Sims2 than any programe I've used before. Does much more and cleaner than Corel.
Cons: There is a bit of a learning curb and after Photoshop and Corel is takes a but to get used to. There can be at time to many opitions to choice from when you haven't figured out what certain functions do.
Summary: I would recomend this over and over again even with the learn curb. The freeware function is also useful and is another major factor in this programme it is really helpful, whenyou are poor or and college student that has projects due and what you w... read more >>
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Version: GIMP 2.6.5
"Looks good but manuel is daunting for a noob."
Pros: This is a powerful program recommended by friends in the Sims2 community I have seen it work and can't wait to learn to use it. So far it is easy to learn if the manual is available.
Cons: I can't learn without a written copy in my hand while I practice the information. The manual is large and bulky printed out.
Summary: I am computer challenged but expect that with the manual and some patience I will learn to use this program. It is exciting to see that I can manipulate any image and use it as I want. My amateur photographer husband will love the Image manipulat... read more >>
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Version: GIMP 2.6.5
"Get features of Photoshop, Paint Shop, etc. for free!"
Pros: 1. Most powerful yet easy to use free image editor.
2. Tons of options ranging from different selection, paintbrush, filter and cloning tools.
3. Great for web designers.
4. Most-used options just a click away.
5. Allows for grid size definition.Cons: 1. Needs text deselect option.
2. Need to click a separate menu to save file type.
3. Difficult to center text - only allows writing from LR/RL.
4. Windows are cumbersome, sometimes obscuring an image and other information.
5. Long load time.Summary: GIMP 2.6.5 is a steal! I have tried the top 3 free image editing softwares IrfanView, Photoscape and Paint.NET and none of them come close to the functionality and options of GIMP. The publisher's description of GIMP does not do it justice. My fi... read more >>
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