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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: June 29, 2005
- Total Downloads: 1,468,203
- Downloads last week: 6,963
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 570 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. This application caught our attention--and hearts--as one of the most powerful general-purpose image editors around. The application's features include channels; layers and masks; filters and effects; tabbed palettes; editable text tools; and color operations such as levels. The application provides professional tools that can stand against the big boys without the hefty price tag. The only downside to this otherwise flawless program is the installation process. As it stands now, you have to install the GTX Runtime Environment and The GIMP separately. Once installed, though, the program is extremely powerful and easy to work with. The GIMP is ideal for amateur photographers, Web designers, and 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 2.2.8 is a bug-fixing release.
Note: You will need to download both GTK+ Runtime Environment and The Gimp installers. Install GTK+ before installing The Gimp.
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User reviews of The GIMP 2.2.8
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 570 votes
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10 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.2.8
"One of the best image editing programs around!!"
Pros: Ever since I discovered this product(which was some year ago), I've been extremely amazed about it. Who ever knew that some free open-source product can match up to Adobe Photoshop? Actually, for me, GIMP is better than Photoshop because of the price; ease of use; user-friendliness; and lots of other features. Really amazing. Get this now!!
Cons: The interface is really not that good. Why can't it just stay in one window, not seperate ones? It makes stuff odd. And the installer.. why can't it include the GTK+ Environment already? Anyway, besides those.. this program is the tops!
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.2.8
Pros: very good program with a variety of functions. Equal to photoshop for non-professional users.And it is for free!!!It
doesn't crash system and it is faster! Try it! You have nothing to lose.
Cons: The interface might be a litlle strange because it doesn't remind nothing of windows environment.It consistsof two basic windows for the tools and one seperate window for the picture we have choose. Closer to Mac OS users but you can use to it.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.2.8
Pros: its free first off. also its very powerful and stable for being free. its good for those who cant afford photoshop and those who dont know much about graphics
Cons: its a bit hard to understand at first. also to install the add-ons is a tough one. and on the windows version it tends to pop up some errors for some reason, but it doesnt effect the running of the program.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.2.8
"Paint Shop Pro for Free!!!!!"
Pros: It is the best free paint studio program. It is one of the best. You can do nearly everything you would using Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photo Shop for free!!!!!
Cons: The interface is not very good, I think the developers should change it in their next edition to something more like Paint Shop Pro, etc.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.2.8
"The best thing aside from Photoshop... for free."
Pros: EXTREMELY powerful raster image editor. Nearly all the features and capabilities of Photoshop with none of the cost. Plug-ins and scripting make it extensible and customizible. Open Source, etc. Overall a wonderful, wonderful program.
Cons: The interface... needs work. Gnome doesn't look good to begin with and its implementation here leaves something to be desired. No single-window mode at all. Saving/opening dialogue takes a lot out of the hands of the user.
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