Hailed by Linux users, Gimp (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) is a free picture editor which can also be run in Windows. Although it’s never designed to challenge Photoshop, it offers similar user experience, although by reduced features.
Gimp won’t create catalogue and manage your pictures. You can use Google Picasa free application to do that. It also gives pressure to functionality for users simplicity.
You can open pictures or create them from zero in main window. You will also get toolbox full of icons and other to use brush, chanel, paths, etc. this layout will be familiar for Photoshop user, but it can make amateur user startled. Interface which offers minimum facility containing what needed to finish work and in some case, you can be bombarded by vague error message if there’s something out of your plan. Even so, the tool lines offered makes effort to learn how to use this program worth to do. There’s full support to layer and masks, painting tool, advance brush control, animation, and visual undo feature which made you possible to search through thumbnail from previous version of your pictures.
As part of GNU project, Gimp is an object to routine update and various improvement. Some unofficial plug-in and hack are also provided with various difficulty levels.
Functions which are not supported natively by this program, such as HDR and GIF animation, is provided through this plug-in and add-on. But you should search it by yourself. Sometimes, the data plug-in offers advanced features which are not found yet in commercial program, such as
Resynthesizer plug-in from Dr Paul Harrison activate content-aware fills feature almost for 10 years, where Adobe has just introduced content-aware in PhotoShop CS5. However, Gimp also lack of some important features such as adjustment layer and support to 16bit picture.
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