GIMP Reviews & Product Details

Very simple to use with beautiful plugins and a codebase that makes image manipulation and image editing an instant work of art. The software is unique in that most of its features can be unlocked from the massive list of add-ons that are available to make image manipulation and edit a tremendous effort.

Maybe there was an excellent way to adjust the screens and menu options and change the looks of GIMP with some perfect image screens.

Gimp helps you convert, modify, vectorize or edit raster as well as vector images from different image formats. It helps to do color corrections, gaussian blur, apply filters and modify pictures with some cool effects to manipulate and edit as a piece of art.

GIMP is a free and open source image editing tool. It is extremely lightweight and doesn't eat up all system resources. It also works almost all popular formats. It's the best alternative to Photoshop.

GIMP has a very opinionated and non standard UI that may not suit all users. When you launch the application, it brings up three windows, one for the editing viewport and main menu, and the other two for toolbars. It seems like a very unintuitive UI.

Since Photoshop is not available for Linux, I found GIMP to be a great replacement, and a very good one. It is feature complete and supports almost all file formats.

What I like best is that GIMP is totally free to use and it's by far the best image editing software that you can get that acts as a huge upgrade from the default MS Paint that comes pre-installed with Windows. It contains more image editing tools compared to the basic ones of Paint while offering image scaling and cropping abilities without damaging the original quality. It allows easy conversions from one image format to another while retaining the original quality and also allows any compression to be removed so that the image comes out looking as you'd want. Not only can you work on images of any format with GIMP, you can also edit and create GIFs through the use of different layers.

The one thing I don't like about GIMP is that it isn't very intuitive when you want to crop an image by a small number of pixels. It's selection tool isn't very precise and often times you have to guess to find exactly how many pixels you're cropping out until the final image is of the size that you're looking for.

I rely on GIMP a lot for editing and rescaling the size of images. For the images that we use on our website, having to use HTML code to change the size of the image often makes them a little blurry or poor in quality. Even for our presentations, sometimes the cropping tool isn't particularly accurate and giving us satisfactory results. This is where GIMP has been of great help as it allows us to crop and scale down the size of images without changing the quality of the original image. Furthermore while making logos and backgrounds for presentations, it's incredibly helpful that we can create additional layers for the images. This allows editing to be done in an easier fashion for certain parts of the image and reduces any misplacement or any errors in the whole picture. The biggest benefit of GIMP is that it allows you to convert from one image format to another with ease.

Available as a free download for all common computer operating systems and as an Android app, GIMP is a full-featured image editing application that competes with the likes of Adobe Photoshop. With its intuitive interface and extensive documentation, it is straightforward for even a casual user to touch up photos and create graphical images.

To create vector images, you will want to use a different application such as Adobe Illustrator or the freeware alternative, Inkscape.

It's ideal for editing photos and graphical images, and graphical layout for single page documents. Although anything involving extensive textual layout you will probably prefer a desktop publishing application.

It is surprising to open GIMP and find out how many advanced image editing functions are available in the application. The software has great performance and an easy-to-use user interface for anyone who has used image editing software.

GIMP is increasingly becoming an advanced photo editor and this has made it an application that requires better hardware. I understand that this is the demand of most users, but I prefer the older versions of GIMP. In fact, almost entirely, you have already had to edit some image in your work, GIMP is the best way to edit image files without major loss of quality in file compression and with access to tools that allow you to do everything without with advanced tools that make everything more efficient.

In the software development process it is often necessary to make minor changes to image files, even when you are not an UI designer. GIMP is an open source tool with quality equal to or higher than its paid competitors.

I like it because it is not heavy on the RAM usage, it packs majority of the necessary photo editing tools that the major product brands have including simple functions like cropping, skewing, and other transform tools. It has advanced features like image retouching, effects, text incorporation, background removal and other awesome renderings for your photo editing projects.

Sometimes when using transform tools, it leaves an 'after image' like effect even if you disable showing the layer being used, which bleeds through other layers. Although it can be removed by restarting the app.

GIMP allowed me to use a free software with all the functionalities that PhotoShop or CorelDRaw can provide. Savings is very important as it allows me to channel those funds on other software for my multimedia editing endeavors.

Its free easy to use and great! easily rivals photoshop with no effort.

the selection tool could be a little more versatile at removing backgrounds.

Fixing coversheets and logos for my company.

Obviously the thing that I like best about GIMP is that it is free, after having a paid service denied me service after a decade of use. It is also nice that GIMP is opensource, allowing anyone to be able to enhance and improve upon the program. GIMP also has a lot of customization options as well as 3rd party plugins. GIMP makes converting images into different file types simple and hassle-free. GIMP has made creating and manipulating sprite images for website images and navigation menus a breeze.

It takes some getting used to all of the menus and settings and the menus are easy to mess up and harder to revert it back to what you are used to seeing. When you paste an item to the project that you are working on it sets it as a floating item instead of as a new layer, so then you have to manual click on it and click to new layer to then be able to work with the newly pasted layer. When recoloring items it does not automatically set the image to the highest resolution so that colors are not true to their values and you have to go and manually change the image to rbg and precision to 32 bit, then go back to change the color of the image. GIMP is limited to the highest rgb precision at 32 bits. When working with layers you can not drag and drop images to their places, you have to edit the layer's properties and move it on the x and y axis which leads to a lot of trail and errors to get it placed just where you want it to be in the larger image.

GIMP makes it somewhat easy to create logos, banners, ads, headers, footers, menus, background images, and other images for websites. GIMP also makes it easy to work with layers and transparent backgrounds to create more in-depth images. GIMP's image scaling is very smooth and true to form, making it easy to resize photos and images down to a smaller size to cut back on the file size.

Virtually any editing feature you might need in a photo editor is present, so it is all you'll ever need in such software, and it's available every commercially viable platform!

The default multi-window appearance on some systems might be a turn-off for inexperienced users

Anytime you need to do a quick touch-up, crop, or anything similar to a photo, such a problem is easily solvable

Gimp is one of the few programs that i have found that maintain any level of competitiveness with the big dogs in the graphic arts industry. The array of tools, customizations, and flexibility make it a great system for everyone from the beginner to the industry captain.

If I were to say gimp as one failing it would be the very steep learning curve. I've used gimp to do everything from create logos to coloring coloring book pages, and while the community for gimp is out there, the difficulty is sorting through the appropriate levels of different versions tools login configurations and finding the information you need to do the fancy effect you desire.

While using gimp I've used it to entertain myself and create logos for companies. I realize that while I may not be charged for this program I am able to do the same skills and designs that I would with some of the larger more expensive programs. While this benefit is definitely a great thing. Compared to some of the other companies this one program being as inexpensive is it is being free, sets it above and beyond,