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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
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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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4.7 starsout of 19 votes
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"hunting photoshop..."
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
great tool,excellent for saving a couple of $$ if not planning using photoshop..best free image editor around.
Cons
if this is a photoshop cloning,it is also as dificult to work with...nothing a few hours won't heal!
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"Excellence"
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
I have Adobe photoshop installed on my computer, and in my opinion The GIMP is in every way as good as it. The only difference really is.. this is free! I ran all of my spyware and anti-virus programs after i installed it cos' i found this so hard to believe, and nothing was found. I can't recommend this programme highly enough. There's no better product i've come across for producing digital art.
Cons
None at all, you could be shot for complaining
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"Excellent!"
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
Free and professional.
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"Amazing"
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
Gimp Is a free kopy of photo-shop. It have all tools you ned and a bit more. I rekomend this program.
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"Photoshop Features and it's FREE!"
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
With the fact it is free, packaged with many filters, and has a community of plug-ons available, this is the best Image editor on the market. I am a computer engineering student at the University of Oklahoma and as well as a website developer for a student club there. I use this program on Software GUI projects, webdevelopment, image effects, and both personal and professional photography.
Check out zachfair.com for some of my artwork and ou.edu/racquetball.com for the graphics I made for web development. I have not had any course on graphics, so that just proves how easy it is to use.
Cons
The fact that the program is not docked inside a background window annoyed me at first. However I have dual monitors so this feature makes the program easier to use. No cons really, it's free.
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"Brilliant app for practically all imaging requirements"
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
I spent ages searching for an imaging editing app to do exactly what I wanted till I stumbled across this one. Fantastic App.
Cons
The name & slightly complicated menu system are the only 'draw' backs.
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"GOOD BUT NOT GREAT..."
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
The Gimp is quite similar to Photoshop (and ohters graphics software) There's a lot of function useful to edit photos and images, it's fast & free...
Cons
...but it's not easy to understand the floating-panel-interface (just like Photoshop...), especially for a non-pro user like me. I had some crash on my PC, after the first installation. If you want to make some simple effect in photos and images...go for another software!
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"works with windows 98"
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
I just wanted to add to all the great reviews that I have a pretty old computer (1999) running windows 98, and the gimp works perfectly for me.
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"Its amazing!"
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
GIMP is basically a free mimic of Photoshop, and in my opinion, better.
Even now that I have Photoshop, I only use it occasionally because GIMP loads faster and is easier to use.
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"Excellent product for image processing students and professionals"
Version: The GIMP 2.2.10
Pros
I have just started digital image processing course in university. I tried everything from Photoimpact to photoshop elements but none of the tools suited my needs. Either they are for novice users hiding all the details, or they are 500MB beasts that are intended for graphics development. Then I revisited my buddy GIMP and found everything I needed was right there. Applying masks, convolution, histogram, thresholding and everything else my teacher tries to bore us with everyday is available for practical use. And above all its free. What else can a DIP student ask for?
Cons
Th einterface is one thing GIMP has been criticized over for years, but they dont seem to change it. Floating toolbars over the desktop make it clumsy, especially when you have some other applications running in the background too. GIMP has covered lot of ground in recent releases, so I hope when they release version 3, they redesign the interface because GIMP is now ready for the masses.
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