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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Date added: February 17, 2009
- Total Downloads: 139,279
- Downloads last week: 730
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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.
What's new in this version:
- support for local installation of GIMP help files
- GIMP 2.6.5
- updated theme for Leopard
- various libraries and plugins: cairo, pango, gtk2, liquid rescale, greycstoration, ufraw and others
- focus blur: add an out-of-focus effect, depth of field to your photos
- wavelet sharpen: really good sharpen plugin
- wavelet decompose: edit your photos on different detail scales
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Version: GIMP 2.6.5
Pros: In theory a good package
Cons: If unfamiliar with these types of packages it can look very complex.
Summary: Needs a better consumer userface
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Version: GIMP 2.6.5
"outstanding, easy to use and good quality effects,"
Pros: if you make a mistake it is easy to take a step b ack and try something else, well happy
Cons: cannot just drop pictures in box as it states, i have to reformat them first
Summary: good effects, easy to learn how to use it, good quality effects, recommend to anyone interested in improving their boring pictures.
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