- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: March 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,676,086
- Downloads last week: 8,419
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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.
Version 2.6.6 is a bug-fixing release.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.6.6 is a bug-fixing release.
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User reviews of GIMP 2.6.6
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 580 votes
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Version: GIMP 2.6.6
Pros: works great
Cons: i dont know how to really use it
Summary: so worth getting, it's free.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.6.6
"A great program and it's free."
Pros: Lot of good features. I'm new to the program and trying to learn how to use GIMP. Manual instructions could be better explaining tools.
Cons: I find that GIMP requires 4 or 5 more steps to accomplish a task as compared to one step process in Paint.net and Inkscape. This frustrates me.
Summary: Overall GIMP is a very good challenge to learn. I like challenges so....I'm carrying on.....
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Version: GIMP 2.6.6
"It still would have been awesome at 3 times the price."
Pros: Full range of functions to enhance, correct, and/or have fun with your photos.
Cons: Learning curve was intimidating but not insurmountable.
Summary: I would recommend this program as an alternative to Photoshop any day hands down. I could go on for the next 4800 characters but still would not be able to do it justice and to stress using this program vs Photoshop. HAVE FUN or START A BUSINESS ... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.6.6
Pros: Like all the features that I have seen listed in this program. This about all I can say about it right now as I am having a hard time learning it how to use this program. Maybe if I ever learn it, I can give it more stars later.
Cons: Amazed at all the people who said this was easy to use, especially the user who said he learned it in 10 minutes! Hate using 2 separate windows & no help file, except online. Needs a help file explaining features in the program--not only online!
Summary: I guess if I keep reading everything about how to use GIMP, I may learn it in time and learn to love it, but right now I am so frustrated with it. (And I do have a college degree!) Even tech support sites I belong to have a hard time trying to expl... read more >>
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Version: GIMP 2.6.6
"Good program rates up with the commercial competitors."
Pros: Price cannot be beat.
Cons: No cons at this time.
Summary: Does NOT require a collage degree to use.
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