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2 stars
Version: GIMP 2.6.6
"Very Hard Learning Curve"
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 explain how to use it. I hear more complaints on how hard it is to use than I do about how great a program it is on these tech sites. Needs to be a lot more user friendly & GIMP needs to come with a help file in the program. I have copied down everyone's suggestions here & their list of web sites to go to for more help--hopefully these sites will give me more insite to using this program. And where do you get these plug-ins I keep hearing about. Some features in my program are grayed out--and it is a free program so I don't understand why they are grayed out unless it is because it needs a plug in. And saving something is a real pain. I found the safest way to save a photo, is to flatten the image first, then tell it to save as, and then when the box pops up with the file name listed, to change the extension itself next to the image file to a JPEG extension as well as choosing JPEG in the drop down menu--if you don't do that, at least in my experience, then it saves the image in an unreadable extension that other programs can't read! The only reason I wanted to learn this program in the first place was to be able to put more images into one photo--such as putting several different people into one photo so that they would all be together--such as making a family photo. I did learn how to do this with a lot of help from tech sites and after numerous mistakes. Spent 12 hours making my first layered photo of family members.
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