GIMP 2.4.5

Publisher's description of 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 2.4.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Editor's review of GIMP

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.

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  Time is ... money!

  by: ma-da-lin on 21-Apr-2008 01:15:54 PM

  Pros: I will not talk about features. GIMP already has anything you may want from a image manipulation program... There is almost no diffrence between what you can do using GIMP or using Adobe Photoshop.

  But, there is a big diffrence in the area of learning, graphical user interface and the time you spend because of the absurd GUI!

  Unfortunately this is the truth and this is what you are paying for when using Adobe Photoshop. Gimp like many other open source programs is designed by those strange programmers with strange minds. There is a lack of thinking about that "stupid" consummer in every button or every windows appereance. Unfortunately the open source outhors are often focusing only on features, source code and performance. By the other way the success of Windows OS or MacOS when we are talking about graphic design is only because they are focusing on the end user. This is something all open source comunity must learn from their big enemies: companies that are selling softwares. Do not forget time is the most expensive resource in the world, and time is money. This is why after using GIMP for more than 5 years, i decided 1000$ for a photoshop license deserve every dolar from it. Because my time is a valuable resource and those open source autors seems they are not seeing the forest from the trees ... or the end user because of the C code.

  Cons: Absurd GUI...

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  GOOD SOFTWARE & NICE TO SEE IT'S BEING UPDATED REGULARLY

  by: Fred Brychta on 16-Mar-2008 02:48:27 PM

  Pros: This is a new version & at this point (still learning) I can't really tell the difference between this new version & the previous version. It seems a bit faster. Also nice to see it is being updated a bit more often than once every 2-3 years unlike the big expensive versions which I'm sure are 100% perfect out of the box.

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  GIMP keeps getting better and better. Goodbye Photoshop.

  by: rdg on 14-Mar-2008 07:34:57 PM

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  Great... but

  by: wbowblis on 31-Mar-2008 07:23:41 AM

  Pros: Seems to do almost anything that Photoshop can do, but the interface is very different from anything else I've used, so it's a long learning curve. Gimpshop makes it a little more friendly.

  Cons: Takes a while to learn. More a warning than something I don't like.

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  And people still pay for photoshop???

  by: skiracer712 on 21-Apr-2008 10:39:51 AM

  Pros: Works very well.

  Not for beginners, this is for advance graphics/photo editing people (if you just want to crop or resize this is the wrong program for you).

  I like all the features, I found it easier to use than PS. And its free.

  Cons: Takes awhile to learn. There are teaching "manuals" out on the web, just need to find them.

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