GIMP for Mac

Free GIMP Mac OS X 10.10/10.11/10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9 Version 2.8.22 Full Specs

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3.5

Very good

Average User Rating:

81 User Votes

3.1

out of 83 votes

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Editors' Review

by Download.com staff / October 18, 2014

Gimp for Mac is a photo editing tool designed to be a free rival to Photoshop. This program has been popular with people running Linux for some time and is now available for Mac.

Pros

Free and powerful: Gimp provides almost as much professional-level photo editing power in a package that is completely free as premium products, which makes it an option that almost everyone should consider.

Similarity to Photoshop: The reality is that Photoshop has been on top of the photo editing world for some time. So if you're an experienced editor you've probably got a fair bit of familiarity with that program. Gimp has a number of familiar tools and interfaces that will be almost immediately clear to anyone who has used Photoshop before, which makes for a simple transition.

Interface flexibility: Gimp allows you to adjust the interface to your liking. If you're used to setting up your digital retouching workspace a certain way, you should be able to mirror that interface fairly closely within this program.

Cons

Automated selection tools: When you're editing large amounts of images, anything that speeds up your workflow is very welcome, such as automatic selection tools. However, these tools did not work exceptionally well in Gimp, and you usually have to resort to manually selecting your areas instead.

Bottom Line

Although it isn't flawless, Gimp is a very powerful photo editing program. If you're looking for a cost-effective solution that will allow you to edit your photos with professional level results, then you should certainly look into Gimp.

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Editors' Review

by Download.com staff / October 18, 2014

Gimp for Mac is a photo editing tool designed to be a free rival to Photoshop. This program has been popular with people running Linux for some time and is now available for Mac.

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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.

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"You'd better pay once"

Davexofc June 02, 2016 / Version: Gimp 2.8.14

2016-06-02 06:13:44 | By Davexofc

Pros

It's free. That's all

Cons

It's not stable.

Summary

Can't see any advantages comparing to Photoshop except the price, but if you're a serious designer of digital artist, you'd better pay once and get fully functional product instead of endless worrying about Gimp's stability.

1 stars

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"Crap. Crashes the instant I opened it on Maverick"

karrezza August 25, 2015 / Version: Gimp 2.8.14

2015-08-25 09:58:28 | By karrezza

Pros

NONE NONE NONE

Cons

ALL ALL ALL

1 stars

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"Non-intuitive and limited"

dwall13 January 23, 2014 / Version: GIMP 2.8.10

2014-01-23 13:47:01 | By dwall13

Pros

Will show you how much you need photoshop.

Cons

Horrible. You can't even move objects without infuriation. Picture editing is a joke, both difficult and poor.

Summary

Just horrible

2 stars

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"Can download but not install after several attempts"

Lablover2 November 30, 2013 / Version: GIMP 2.8.8

2013-11-30 09:53:46 | By Lablover2

Pros

I can download it okay.

Cons

After downloading gimp.dmg and attempting to install it I get a message telling me GIMP has quit
unexpectedly. I have an iMac that I purchased from an Apple Store in May of this year. It has OS X
10.8.5.

2 stars

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"very puzzling"

knnylake November 29, 2013 / Version: GIMP 2.8.8

2013-11-29 17:30:45 | By knnylake

Pros

don't know

Cons

would not open, tried everthing I knew--shouldn't be that hard to install and open

Summary

dragged it to the trash

5 stars

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"Version 2.8.0 is perfect on OSX 10.6"

ewphillips123 October 24, 2013 / Version: GIMP 2.8.6p1

2013-10-24 12:02:24 | By ewphillips123

Pros

Has hints on the fly that Photoshop does not. Complete tools and effects for the desktop professional. Works well in all situations on the mac. Straight forward. Free when they could charge as much as Adobe does.

Cons

Little slow to startup because has to launch X11. So what. That means you have to have X11. So what, that is free.

Summary

GIMP is a real threat to Photoshop. I am running a MacBook Pro 2.6 Ghz with 4 Gig ram. I tried seashore (0.5.1) and the simple task of rotating an image from horizontal to vertical cut the image off. Ridiculous. I have used Photoshop for over 15 years on and off. Been paid to do numerous print ads. Gimp is a primetime program, at least version 2.8.0 is. Try GIMP for yourself and if it does not work on Mountain Lion, contact Gimp. I am sold on Gimp for my OSX 10.6. Gimp people are responsive to getting it right, so I believe that they will get it right if it really isn't. But try it for yourself before believing any other reviews. What do you have to lose, the money you paid for it? Thanks GIMP for giving me such a great program. PS Adobe disabled my full version Acrobat 5.0, I had purchased it about 8 years ago and Adobe recently forcing me to re-register before I could continue to use it. They disabled something that was resident in my Mac OSX operating system files that had to do with Acrobat 5.0. This happened after I got adobe reader and did an update. The gall of Adobe to do this is like the Gestapo and damaged business I was working on for a client. They cost me more than the value of the program I paid for.
Tried of Adobe. They have tried to charge monthly for their website creation program a year or two ago. I hope that flopped. Forget Seashore, it does very little. Try GIMP and see what it will do.

A concerned desktop publisher.

1 stars

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"Got message "Gimp has Quit Unexpectedly" every time."

Reviewer999 October 20, 2013 / Version: GIMP 2.8.6p1

2013-10-20 19:16:46 | By Reviewer999

Pros

Good review.

Cons

Doesn't work at all.

Summary

Doesn't work on my iMac.

1 stars

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"Never worked, I'd give it 0 stars if I could."

jmangino September 12, 2013 / Version: GIMP 2.8.6p1

2013-09-12 12:19:49 | By jmangino

Pros

None- won't even load.

Cons

As soon as you try to open it you get a box that opens saying that 'gimp has quit unexpectedly'. Never even got to open the program.

Summary

I've used GIMP for years on my PC's, apparently it's useless on a mac though bc this is the second time I've tried it on an apple computer and both times it's failed to open.

1 stars

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"Gimp is Jip"

atomicparticle August 23, 2013 / Version: GIMP 2.8.6

2013-08-23 23:03:28 | By atomicparticle

Pros

wouldn't know, never worked

Cons

comes with malware. Even though I unchecked every possible add on this thing tries to install, I got it anyway and it seized my browser. Some junk called Conduit. and it STILL installed all this other software I unchecked it not to install. Took me days to remove Conduit and it sometimes keep popping up, finding it in prog files conduit folder.

Also the program downloaded but froze during install so never got around to trying it.

Summary

Get at your own risk

4 stars

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"Appears to work well with Mountain Lion, March 26/13"

snth March 26, 2013 / Version: GIMP 2.8.4

2013-03-26 19:19:16 | By snth

Pros

Used it for an hour. Ran pretty good. Gimp finally runs entirely on its own. Nothing else to download. Just start it up and it goes. Free. There is a big gap in the freebies between this app and low-end Seashore or whatever it's called, but Seashore is rather obtuse for a basic editor, so I'd rather put up with the complexity of GIMP, and work my simple way around the complexity for the basic needs.

Cons

Can't find many, except when I simply dragged an image file into a 'New' project, it crashed. Maybe you're not supposed to do that, or the image was too big for picture size or something, but I'm not a professional image worker. Once I opened the image from the file selector, it was fine

Summary

Good product, no extras needed anymore, Free.

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Publisher	GIMP
Publisher web site	http://gimp.org/
Release Date	August 22, 2017
Date Added	August 22, 2017
Version	2.8.22

Category
Category	Digital Photo Software
Subcategory	Photo Editors

Operating Systems
Operating Systems	Mac OS X 10.10/10.11/10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9
Additional Requirements	None

Download Information
File Size	55.86MB
File Name	gimp-2.8.22-x86_64.dmg

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Total Downloads	627,717
Downloads Last Week	35

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License Model	Free
Limitations	Not available
Price	Free

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