It has a lot of features, enough from amateurs up to pro photographers and illustrators.
Sometimes, when you need a quick edition on a photo, its amount of options is overwhelming.
Having full-featured photo editing software at zero cost. Another: being a Linux user, the paid competitor (Photoshop) is not available.
The learning curve coming from Photoshop is very flat. Allowing you to start to work inmediatly.
Sometimes customised toolbars lose their position, so you have to arrange them again.
Reducing the cost of licences without losing options.
GIMP is like Photoshop, without the hefty price tag associated. It can do almost anything you need for digital image manipulation and processing, and has tons of features and add-ins that make it indispensable.
For someone coming from Photoshop, the user interface can take some getting used to. There are also some features missing, and it may be a bit more unpolished (e.g. bugs) than Photoshop. However, for the price it is hard to beat.
For image processing and manipulation, GIMP is helpful. For example, producing figures for papers and presentations, performing pixel-level analysis of images, some types of image processing such as thresholding, FFTs, etc.
I have been using GIMP for years and did almost all types of image editing work smoothly. I often use it for creating Blog Post Images, Image Retouching, and Changing Sizes and Resolutions. It's a free and open-source powerful tool. That saves the cost of the Software license. I have installed GIMP on all my devices, Linux, Windows and Mac. Easy to work on image layers. I used it to create images, icons, vector images for websites, and different-sized images for different social media posts. Easy to remove and change image background. That's a free, powerful, and feature-rich tool.
I have never felt like it is lacking somewhere. It perfectly did all my jobs. Its UI is outdated, but most free and open-source tools look the same, so it's OK for me. I am used to it.
I am using GIMP to complete my day-to-day micro jobs, which helps me achieve them perfectly, like image retouching, cropping, resizing, and background removal. The most significant benefit of GIMP is it is free and the best alternative to Photoshop.
Has almost all the features of software that costs hundreds of pounds a year in subscriptions.
Works well i havent founds anything to dislike so far if i am honest.
We are a laser engraving and cutting business we use gimp to edit and make our designs without the large pricetags that other software companies charge.
Powerful and free. Supports most common file types.
Not super intuitive but worth it to support the open source community.
I don't need image manipulation on a regular basis so paying a high price for the most popular software doesn't make sense. GIMP lets me make pretty technical alterations for free.
You can do a lot of the basic functions you might be used to using in photoshop without paying a steep subscription fee.
If you're used to the adobe suite, you might find the user interface a little awkward abd clunky. Doing things like resizing and rotating images, adding text, and making selections can feel like they take longer.
GIMP is great for putting together quick mockups, adjusting the levelsbon images, cropping, and adding text.
Accessible tools, plenty of plugins, and high-quality photo editing for free.
Coming from Adobe, it has a different interface that took some getting used to. But it was easy to get there.
GIMP helps eliminate the cost barrier to Adobe and helps create amazing graphics free of charge. It's a perfect fix.