

GIMP versus Photoshopįirstly, GIMP is free. I’ll give you a very quick, down and dirty comparison of the two products. However, dollars to donuts you’ve probably heard of its For Pay, For Profit competitor Adobe Photoshop. This week’s Digital Product Crunch is a on one of the mostly widely used (and widely useful) programs that you’ve probably never heard of. If you want to learn more about what GNU means, please visit this handy dandy Wikipedia GNU entry. I refuse to explain that further (because…honestly I can’t). And yes, GNU is another acronym…a recursive acronym in fact. GIMP is an acronym that stands for GNU Image Manipulation Editor. Hence it can be installed and distributed for free.Before you say that GIMP is the most unfortunately named photo editing software in the world, I should clarify its moniker. Gimp Image Editor uses the GIMP license: GPL. The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files.Ī guide about how to use this app can be found at Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip. Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool. Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing. Suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Moreover, numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. It gets rids you of unneeded details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the new healing tool. GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques.

It can be used as a simple paint program, image editor, an expert quality photo retouching program, an image renderer, or an image format converter. It is an integration with the Linux Desktop app GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation), a freely distributed program that provides many capabilities.

Gimp online Image Editor is an app for tasks as photo and image retouching, image composition and image authoring.
