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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 25, 2007
- Total Downloads: 1,468,203
- Downloads last week: 6,963
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 572 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. The latest update is robust enough to have earned a full-point upgrade, although it's merely a jump from 2.2 to 2.4.
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, and color operations such as levels. New improvements include scalable brushes, revised selection tools, a new color menu, full-screen editing, a new crop tool, improved printing, red eye removal, perspective clone, lens distortion, and more. 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.
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 2.4.2 includes unspecified updates.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.4.2 includes unspecified updates.
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User reviews of The GIMP 2.4.2
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 572 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.4.2
"Good but with a few downfalls"
Pros: I would really recommend this product for users who do not have Adobe Photoshop or can't pay for an image editing program. The GIMP requires GTK RunTime Environment to run, and it always comes with the installer without any intrusive and hoggy problems like Java. The GIMP is very small, and very easy to use. It clones Adobe Photoshop's interface and also has various image editing tools. Not intrusive, very light on resources, and it does everything without the clutter, and the installation when by smoothly.
Cons: Although this program works like Photoshop, it is missing a lot of features and also has minor crashes. It also isn't as popular so getting brushes and patterns for this program will be more challenging.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.4.2
Pros: A lot better than old version, bugs fixed, and eaiser to work with.
Cons: Takes a while to figure out
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.4.2
"Hello, GIMP. Goodbye, Photoshop!"
Pros: Works easily and well for me.
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Version: The GIMP 2.4.2
Pros: I tried this program a few years ago and it was awful. In a desparate situation I downloaded the new version and it is great! I am glad they made it more like photoshop so it is easier to understand right away.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The GIMP 2.4.2
"Lots of features but no on-line help"
Pros: Feature Rich, better than some commercial low end products.
Cons: Very difficult to figure out. Program could benefit by some embedded Help files.
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