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Gimp Mask

Advantages: It's free and it does everything a professional photographer could want
Disadvantages: It has so many features it could take a while to find your way around

GIMP is a free photo-editing tool similar to Photoshop, which can be used for anything from simple red-eye reduction, cropping and image size or file format changing to full professional photo retouching. GIMP is an acronym for "GNU Image Manipulation Program" and was written for UNIX or Linux computers, but now is also available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. I would like to reiterate the word "free". This software is downloadable legally for free and has been developed and supported by the users of the program as part of the "GNU Project". I won't go into the history of this, but the philosophy behind the project is that "people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful" to quote the GNU website: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy .html Many digital cameras and film scanners come with some ...

AndrewPo 14.11.2008 · Read full review
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The GIMP Software Review

Advantages: Free, easy to use - able to create professional pictures
Disadvantages: Some cool features that we can do in PS but not in GIMP

My best friend told me about this - and I am glad she did. I am very impressed about how it works - and especially the fact there is no money involved whatsoever. Apart from money that you can gain. The GIMP, or GIMP is a free software that lets you edit photos, or create professional drawings and digital paintings. After finding out about GIMP, I no longer had to rely on MS Paint. It has many useful tools aswell as the simple Brush, Pencil and Eraser tools including 'Smudge' tool and more. I have been on the popular art website deviantART for 8 months now (Although I've just now moved account 3 weeks ago) and recently I have been using GIMP to upload to there - and even had a go at selling prints. So this free programme offers alot including Layers and more. Rounding it up in a setence - It's like a free Photoshop. (If you are ...

WolfEatPrey 10.10.2009 · Read full review
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GIMP Photo Editor - Love It!

Advantages: Easy to use, wide range of functions, free!
Disadvantages: Not a proper airbrush, not very clear set out.

~ GIMP ~ ~ Installation ~ Gimp, Or Gimp2, as I have are very easy to download. It is just a standard download which does not take ages like some. I love to edit, so i always look at lots of them at once and this one seemed to stand out to me. ~ Tools ~ There are many tools such as the; rectangle select tool ellipse select tool free select tool select by colour tool scissor select tool foreground select tool paths tool colour picker tool zoom tool measure tool move tool alignment tool crop tool rotate tool scale tool shear tool perspective tool flip tool text tool bucket fill tool blend tool - technically gradient bucket pencil tool paintbrush tool eraser tool airbrush tool ink tool clone tool healing tool perspective clone tool blur / sharpen tool smudge tool dodge / burn tool I personally use this editor a lot, but ...

beccar13 26.10.2009 · Read full review
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