GIMP
GIMP is a free program for such photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Essentially it's the closest thing to Photoshop you can get for free.
- Free • Open Source
- Image Editor
- Photo Editor
- Digital Painting Tool
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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What is GIMP?
GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. 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, an image format converter, and more.
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GIMP Features
- Support for Layers
- DRM Free
- Ad-free
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Custom Brushes
- Non Destructive Editing
- No Tracking
- Color Picker
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Batch Rename Files
- Batch Editing
- Drawing Tablet Support
- WYSIWYG Support
- Support for scripting
- PDF annotation
- Keyframe Animation
- Pressure Sensitivity
- Hardware Accelerated
GIMP information
- Developed byFree Software Foundation (GNU)
- LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.4
- Alternatives204 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 4,307 Stars
- 657 Forks
- 0 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Image Editor
- Photo Editor
- Photo Editing
- Animation
- architectural-photography
- shift-lens
- image-authoring
- perspective
They'll have 1 thing in common - they all got used to Photoshop first.
GIMP isn't perfect. It's got rough edges. It is developed by volunteers, it is not backed by a huge commercial effort like Photoshop nor is it sold for a huge price tag.
Considering that, for 98% of image editing requirements GIMP is just as good as Photoshop. Only if you are in an elite upper tier of artists would it actually be inadequate.
If you are used to Photoshop, you'll find GIMP horrible to use. The same is true in reverse. They are difficult applications with different structures and different approaches to many tasks. It's like going from a Mac to Windows and vice versa. You have to unlearn what you know and relearn something else, and for many that is too much to ask.
However to lack the perspective to understand this basic principle - that you prefer what you know - and lay into the work of the GIMP developers with very unconstructive criticisms is hardly helping anybody. Given it is open source, why not engage them, or why not try to implement improvements? Oh, that would take effort. Trolling online takes no effort whatsoever!
The GIMP has a ton of great features, is constantly improving, and is never going to cost you money. It will just cost you a bit of your time to learn how to use it.
It also doesn't help that you're categorizing everyone into one title.
No, you don't have to be in an elite upper tier of artists for it to be inadequate. Rotating text really doesn't qualify as being "elite upper tier" artist.
Pretentiously mocking some imaginary character for not knowing programming, which you classify as "little effort" appearently, does not achieve anything either.
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You will be amazed how awesome this software is. A lot of premium features simillar to phtoshop. ut it's totally free. So you can enjoy all this functionality and not pay money.
But it would be great to donate the cost of a premium coffee once to the project.
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Zero stars is the best rating for this anti-intuitive junk
I totally agree with some other reviewers who gave it 1 star. This app is the worst disaster ever made.
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Switched to Gimp after having Photoshop for years. Honestly I cant tell much difference between GIMP & Photoshop, except the fact that GIMP is FREEEEEE
Works fine out-of-the-box but lacks some Photoshop features.
There is a Patch for GIMP 2.10+ for Photoshop Users at: https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
One of the best free alternatives to Adobe photoshop :)
GIMP is dogshit alternative to photoshop don't even bait yourself. If you are looking for photoshop replacement this is not it literally take any other program.