Unlike Paint.NET, another free and open-source image editing and painting program, you don’t have to search the internet for the plugins you need: Most will have already been incorporated into GIMP. GIMP is purely a raster program, but there are also a vast selection of drawing and painting tools included. Also, the tutorials available on GIMP’s website can help. Fortunately, GIMP’s tool box includes tips when you hover over a tool and the options for the tool appear in the lower half of the tool box when you make your selection. For a Photoshop user, it’s a little like visiting a foreign country for the first time: Some things seem familiar and others are not. Like any detailed image editor and creator, GIMP is a little hard to get the hang of, but time spent is worth it for great-looking images with relative ease.I felt a little lost when I first opened GIMP 2.6.11. Yes, it’s still really different from Photoshop, but after two decades of Photoshop, is that really a bad thing? ![]() ![]() Criticized for years for being too oddball, too unstable, too un-Photoshop-like, GIMP has finally edged its way into the mainstream. ![]() GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, is an entirely free, open-source image editor and creator that-now in its seventeenth year of development-finally seems ready to take on the big guns.
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