GIMP

A remarkable piece of software... It makes my heart sing to work with free software that is made with passion and love. I look forward to getting better and better at using GIMP as the years go by. Lifelong learning... thank you!

What do you like best?

I can't do a project without the help of GIMP, it has many tools that I like and help me develop my experience every day making extremely creative designs. Their templates are well defined and clearly created under a unique concept. Their support helps me to make everything work as it should.

I don't like that GIMP is a bit heavy, you need a good computer to work without any problem.

I recommend GIMP because any kind of project can be created there without problems. It is very advanced and has unique features. I would definitely buy it again and pay twice as much to have a tool of this caliber.

Attached images to make any creative invention, has given us an excellent capacity of creativity to achieve a more striking performance to social networks, blogs, publications and any type of visual project. The company works with many clients who are demanding and help to innovate my capabilities every day.

What do you like best?

It's free, works on windows, and other operating systems. It works great and is easy to use! A great alternative if you don't want to pay for Photoshop.

It's not quite as good as Photoshop but in my opinion it does almost just as good of a job. It's free so it honestly comes pretty close to Photoshop.

If you're considering GIMP give it a try. You really can't go wrong with a free product like GIMP what do you have to lose?

Image editing and improving image quality. Resizing of images.

What do you like best?

The best part of GIMP is that its open source and has the features of photoshop. Before switching to Gimp, we're using photoshop which is quite expensive. When switched, I was surprised to see all tool sets in gimp. It's super lite and comes with all tools, effects and essentials one need to edit photos and create vectors. Also, one should speak about the performance it provides. It works well on 1gb ram powered pcs without any hassle and exports outputs without issues.

There are some bugs in exporting options. While saving the file as png or jpg, it fails to work. There is a bug in it. But other than that, the old school look of UI is something should be updated. Those are some cons to be solved. Other than GIMP is highly recommended for everyone.

If you're new to photo editing Try Gimp first. It's super cool to use and has everything a professional paid software has. Also, for professionals working in the media sector, try gimp and evaluate with photoshop and other tools, you'll find the difference.

With Gimp, I've edited photos, created thumbnails, logos and other vectors needs of my company. It's open source and compatible on low end pcs. It's opensource and free. It's easy to install and work alike photoshop. Above all, the performance is much better than other tools like affinity. That's the plus.

What do you like best?

Did I mention Free? And it works well? The interface is a bit dense and the terminology can be daunting. However, for most photo editing tasks GIMP will do the job quite well and simple Google searches walk you through the steps. The developers keep it up to date and it has a very good selection of tools and sub-attributes like fonts, brushes and export options among many others. I find that most tools are not intuitively easy to use but there is an abundance of youtube videos available that help with any project.

The interface is crowded and if you do not know the terminology, it can be difficult to do simple tasks. It is not as easy for beginners as an application like Photoshop. The application's Help isn't easy for the novice user to read. I find I have to use Google to learn how to do new tasks. It is not intuitive and some tools are overly buried.

GIMP is recommended where cost is an issue, particularly with keeping the application up to date. If you have moderate computing skills, GIMP will not pose a problem to learn. If you are a beginner an/or want something easier to learn, you will be better off with something like Adobe Photoshop where the tools are simpler to access and know what they are needed for.

Creating custom images for marketing purposes, editing images for user guides and creating poster sized images. Also used to make GIF images for tutorials and virtual backgrounds for corporate purposes.

After playing around with GIMP for many hours over a few days, i can say that i am very impressed with this software - especially considering it is free!I am very used to photoshop, but after switching over to a new computer that doesnt have photoshop and not sure that i use the software enough to justify spending £10.00 a month i thought i would try out gimp before reconsidering.Admittedly the first few hours were somewhat fustrating and i had to read tutorials to understand many functions. HOWEVER once getting past this, learning what i need to do and how it works - i am super impressed!It is a very good software and has many functions. I use it for light photo editing and resizing for images i upload to my ecommerce store, and i find the functions to be more then sufficient for my needs. Like i say - you do need to commit a ittle bit of time to understand the programme (Like you would even with photoshop if you were new to it) things can seem complcated (for me anyway) at first but when you get past this its a great programme full of functions that closely compare with photoshop!One more thing I will add - I remember using this programme (very lightly) roughly 5 or more years ago on an old laptop and can say it has greatly improved since then from what i remember!Thank you to the creators that have put a lot of time and thought into this free programme!

What do you like best?

Best of all, it's FREE to use! Possibly one of the best open source alternative to a high end product that I've ever used.

Photoshop has some great filters/presets that professionals offer as packages (free or paid for), but you can't use these in GIMP. Also, if you know either GIMP or Photoshop, it's a little difficult to switch between them, because things are called something a little different or in a slightly different place. Not impossible though.

Whether a quick photo edit or a full-fledged graphic design project, it's a great tool. I mostly use it for creating/editing icons for presentations, or creating various version of logos.

What do you like best?

- It just works! It has plenty of tools to edit and improve the quality of your photos.

- Its architecture allows the creation and use of plug-ins to do interesting things (like filters, automatized work-flow operations, etc).

- It's free software, so you can download, install and use it with no worries about what the license allows and what doesn't.

- It's multi-platform, so you can install and use it on Windows, MacOS X, GNU/Linux up to Sun OpenSolaris and FreeBSD.

- It's lightweight and it's hardware requirements are not high.

- It could look hard to use for non expert users, but it is not different from other famous (and proprietary) software.

- Recent updates changed the way the software saves images. Now the "Save" command saves the file only in its own native .XCF format. If you want to save the file in one of the common image formats, such as .JPG or .PNG, you have to use the "export" command, while in the previous version the "save" command did the whole job. I liked the old behaviour...

Millions of people think that there is only "one" software to work on photos (so that its name is used as a sinonymus of "manipulated photo"). But not all of them pay the (big) price of the license to use it legally. So you should give GIMP a chance to show you that with a little training-time it is the software you need to do legally the same thing that you do (illegally) with the other one.

Everything related to image editing, from simple correction (like crop, rotation, perspective correction and light/color correction...) to advanced manipulation (like restoration of old photos from a scanner, photo-collages, addition of text, etc)

GIMP can manage all image formats, and can import files even in non-raster formats (suche as PDF pages, as an example).

What do you like best?

The best thing is obviously that GIMP is free. But still it is kept up to date, for example it supports the new image format AVIF that other competitors do not support. GIMP has lots of features and I did not found anything I could not do with it. The community is really big, so if there are some issues you've just to ask for help and someone is always there happy to help. Moreover you can install GIMP on your operating system of choice, since it is available on Windows, Mac and Linux.

The user interface takes a little time to get used to, but once you are accustomed to it, you begin to like it. If you are new to image manipulation you might take more time to begin to understand GIMP, but there are lots and lots of tutorials on the web.

There are lots of tutorials on the web (for example on youtube) you can watch, in order to learn more sophisticated aspects of gimp.

Basic image manipulation for Blog entries. Creating Logos for Websites, remove background on pictures.

What do you like best?

GIMP is an ally for image editing, generally in the company we must issue internal and external information flyers about our products and services, and for us to maintain our social networks with real but quality images. Therefore, our Project Management department, we all have this App on our cell phone, because every moment counts and if it is documented it must have the quality that is required.

GIMP is a Software with a very simple and easy-to-use interface, you just have to let your previous knowledge direct you, I have never found anything negative in this software

How not to Recommend a Software that makes your life easier, unlike other editors such as PhotoShop they are very heavy and the cost after a while accumulates and most of the new effects you must pay for them

GIMP is ideal for small businesses because it is free and they can also create quality logos and advertising with professional style easily and immediately, in addition to that you can save different extensions so you can play with the designs whenever you want, really to us It has made our lives easier, editing images has never been easier.