GIMP: A true Photoshop Alternative

[neo1980]

What is the GIMP

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This site contains information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing GIMP. This site also serves as a distribution point for the latest releases, patches, plugins, and scripts. We also try to provide as much information about the GIMP community and related projects as possible.

What`s this site about?

Well, The Gimp is an image manipulation program, written by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball, and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a program for UNIX and X. To learn more about this program, just read on on this page

Where can I get The Gimp?

Easy. From this site. Just look at the Download section. There you'll find the latest stable and the current development version.

Bugs, bugs, bugs!

The current development version of Gimp is loaded with tons of bugs, as Bugzilla will show you in the list of open bugs (including the list of enhancement proposals). If you think you've found a new one, you can submit a bug report.

What about Gimp for Windows?

This is the question we get the most mail about. Yes, there is GIMP for Windows.

http://www.gimp.org

[Keldyn]

moved to graphics designers corner. Thanx Neo ;)

[twist]

gimp is pretty good, but to bad its not close to being as good as photoshop yet.

and of course there is a lot of other products in the adobe line to go with photoshop.

mm has a good line up too, very nice.

gimp is good if you just want something to mess around in, anything more i'd get photoshop

[neo1980]

Gimp on XP

[Deryck]

The Gimp is an okay piece of software, I just use it to enhance images and to compress images but it is not something that is quite there yet even though it has a very good set of tools. However, this is quite a buggy piece of software but I am sure these will being ironed out soon.