- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: August 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,888,266
- Downloads last week: 11,589
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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 2.6.7 is a bug-fixing release.
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Version 2.6.7 is a bug-fixing release.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 580 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.6.7
Pros: many tools and features great for touch ups
Cons: drop down menu is head smashingly frusrtrating
toolboxs are cluncky
program not the best with a touch pad mouseSummary: nice bit of free software but only because it,s free
you need to no alot about editing software to feel comfortable
the program is very precise being a newb i was overwelmd and started reading the manual witch it comes with thats a good... read more >> -
Version: GIMP 2.6.7
Pros: Great fitures for a free application
Cons: No complaints
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GIMP 2.6.7
"Powerful, versatile, easy to use. Not a resource hog."
Pros: Easy quick download & installation. Works fast without bogging down the system. Open source means free! Add-ons, support and updates are available within the community. Tons of features, functions and options. Very customizable.
Cons: Not really a con, tons of options, features and functions means a steep learning curve. Can be confusing at first. Help is out there but you have to get involved, go to a forum and ask!
Summary: The GIMP satisfied my occasional need for an image viewer / editor supporting many formats. I don't do a lot of photo / graphics editing, don't know much about the various software packages for it either. However I did not have any trouble using the... read more >>
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
Pros: Ease of use
Cons: Considering it's cost (free) , I feel I don't have the right to criticise
Summary: See above
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Version: GIMP 2.6.7
Pros: I only use it to convert a periodic file to an acceptable format, meets all my needs. My son uses it, and praises it.
Cons: None I am aware of.
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