GIMP for Mac

User Reviews

• You'd better pay once

  DavexofcJune 2, 2016

  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.

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• Crap. Crashes the instant I opened it on Maverick

  karrezzaAugust 25, 2015

  Pros

  NONE NONE NONE

  Cons

  ALL ALL ALL

  Summary

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• Non-intuitive and limited

  dwall13January 23, 2014

  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

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• Can download but not install after several attempts

  Lablover2November 30, 2013

  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.

  Summary

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• very puzzling

  knnylakeNovember 29, 2013

  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

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• Version 2.8.0 is perfect on OSX 10.6

  ewphillips123October 24, 2013

  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.

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

  Reviewer999October 20, 2013

  Pros

  Good review.

  Cons

  Doesn't work at all.

  Summary

  Doesn't work on my iMac.

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

  jmanginoSeptember 12, 2013

  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.

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• Gimp is Jip

  atomicparticleAugust 23, 2013

  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

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

  snthMarch 26, 2013

  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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