Software
GIMP review
By Clare Brandt | PC World | Published: 16:57, 14 March 2012
Price = Free
GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, is an entirely free, open source image editor and creator that - now in its seventeenth year of development - finally seems ready to take on the big guns. Criticised for years for being too oddball, too unstable, too un-Photoshop-like, GIMP has finally edged its way into the mainstream. Yes, it's still really different from Photoshop, but after two decades of Photoshop, is that really a bad thing?
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Tsais said: Most people have probably forgotten about Micrografx Picture Publisher but it used to be head to head with Photoshop in the 90s till the two Brothers who developed it got in a fight Picture Publishers GUI was always faster more direct and intuitive than Photoshop where everything has to go backwards around 3 corners I like a lot of Photoshops features but I hate the convoluted interface so I tried Gimp a few years ago its still installed but I never use it gonna try out FotoSketcher though sounds like an interesting recommendation
namegamer said: I enjoy the gimp but the big problem for me is that at the moment it only works in 8bits I have an old copy of photoshop elements 2 which is just as good If you want to process photos at the highest level you need 16 bits