GIMP
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The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photo... More


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DEVELOPMENT STATUS : Production
LICENSE : gnu general public license (gpl)
OPERATING SYSTEM : os independent
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE : C
LATEST VERSION : 2.4.6
TITLE SYNONYMS : GNU Image Manipulation Program

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Headline: Wilbert The Dog Eats Photoshop!

A Swiss Knife of image editors GIMP is one of my favorite tools in the Opensource realm. It is so simple that anyone could use, it is also powerful enough to even have scripting capabilities. Don't get me wrong if you are used to Photoshop, it would be difficult to cope up with the flying windows here and there (GIMPShop might help here though). Truth be told it can do 98% of what Photoshop can do and adds a few features of its own.


If you are are into image editing then GIMP is a must have, no question about it. Wilbert will be eating up a lot of competitors in few years time, you quote me on that!


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Best Alternative

This is the best alternative since Adobe is so expensive, however I agree with the most feedback here: the usability should be in the major improvement for the next release.


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User Experience

I used GIMP 2.6, but the user experience is still not as good as that of the Windows and not as crisp as Adobe Photoshop. I have heard that GIMPShop solves that problem but have not really got a chance to try it yet.


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Online GIMP

GIMP is great. Love it. However, need to install it for use on work machine and could not. Found GIMP basically hosted online and delivered through the browser. Try out GIMP online and you will be impressed.


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Gimp

Nice tool for small and fast edits.

Little bit complicated in usability after Adobe counterpart but has advantages and it is OSS.


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How To Master GIMP, For Graphics, Quickly And Easily

If you're in any way interested in graphics, you're probably already familiar with GIMP,  one of the very best of all open source applications and certainly one of the best graphics applications.Users new to GIMP, though, are often unhappy with the level of documentation and the tutorials that are immediately available for it. The good news is that the open source community has offered up many alternative resources for GIMP learning--and they're free. Here is our updated collection of some of the best of them. 

 



Did Open Source Need Linux To Hit the Mainstream?

Open source has officially "crossed the chasm from early adoption to mainstream adoption," pronounced Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst at Forrester Research, at this week's LinuxCon conference. According to ZDNet's Paula Rooney, Hammond based his pronouncement on analysis of several studies, most of which have to do with Linux. Is Linux really the best barometer for this kind of announcement, though? Didn't open source hit the mainstream without it?



Free Resources For Getting Your GIMP Graphics Game On

If you've spent any time at all working with graphics--whether you favor open source software or not--you're probably familiar with the power of GIMP, one of the very best open source graphics applications. Of course, if you know your way around GIMP, you're probably also familiar with the many effects you can execute with it. Scott Photographics has an excellent exploration of how to create see-through text effects posted, and you can learn to do so with GIMP in about five minutes. While you're at it, check out this post's collection of useful, free resources for GIMP.



Is there a good open source Flash development program?

I am slogging through the development of my real estate website. I see Flash content on really cool sites. I am also delving into creating photographic panoramas because they convey such a realistic view of the property. Hugin or GIMP?

thanks,
gerry

GIMP 2.4.5 on Mac OS X

New Mac user here (I previously used GIMP on my PC). When I open a jpg file on my Mac, the image properties are substantially different than the original. For example, I take large format digital photos and they are usually 3,888 x 2,592 px with a file size of around 4 MB. When I open the same picture in GIMP the file properties are 360 x 240 px. This never happened on my PC. I can't find anything in the documentation to explain this. What am I missing (besides a bunch of pixels)?

Thanks

Any good GIMP tutorial sites for beginners?

I'm just starting to use GIMP to do some basic web design. I have no professional training/background in either web design or GIMP and am looking for some good tutorial resources that could help me scale the learning curve quickly.

I ran a couple of google searches and there are 100s of sites that talk about GIMP but I was hoping someone could point me to a couple that would be useful for a first-time user like myself...

Has anyone used seashore?

Seashore is an image editor for the mac os. I currently use Gimp and am very happy with the feature set - although I have printing related issues from time to time which isn't really a big deal.

Was hoping to get some feedback on seashore to see if it makes sense to take this for a test drive.

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