GIMP Reviews & Product Details

Free Source Software, is available with enormous features equivalent to the professional, paid software that is available in the market. Initial difficulties are blown after we master the software. Ease of use is the major feature of the software. Editing requirements are met with GIMP at any level. We can do wonders with the software. Even for CAIE exams, we can use the free software.

Downsides are initial difficulties in finding the shortcuts of the software that make the navigation pretty tough. To get the grip it takes some time.

Collage, photo editing, adding new features in the snaps that create memory, crop, apply layer, and any available editing tools are the benefits of GIMP

I love that GIMP offers a wide variety of tools and features that make the software very complete and effective, it is very useful for Digital Art, It's funcionalty exceeded my expectations. The software is easy to install, friendly to use, and offers tutorials as well. I use it almost every day for my 2D abstract works of art, and I am fascinated by it's features. The software can open files from other photo editing software, and that is very useful. And besides all of this goodies, the software is a free an open source product, so it is great for teaching art.

I dont have any bad feedback about this software, if I were to say something negative, it would be that you can not select many layers at once, but there are other creative strategies that can be used that work great too.

Gimp is solving the issue that artists that have to pay a lot of money for digital art softwares, and the other ones that are free or less expensive are not as good as the ones that are more pricy, but GIMP, is the BEST free and open source software, that serves as substitute to the expenisve digital art software. Besides that, I use GIMP to teach digital art, because it is great for teaching due to its many features and because it is free and open source, and most students can not afford to purchase pricy digital art software. I LOVE GIMP :)

It is basically an Adobe Photoshop replacement. It does all the photo editing I need. It is great for resizing, saving in different file formats, and more.

It's a professional grade editor so you have to know what you are doing.

We have a lot of dark and blurry photos. We have images we need a certain size and resolution.

For a free tool, GIMP is powerful enough for most raster image manipulation purposes. New features are added all the time, and there are plenty of tutorials available online for any image manipulation task one may wish to perform.

There is a learning curve and those who may be used to Corel Photopaint may need to unlearn certain ways of doing things.

GIMP helps in image manipulation such as background removal, image effects, lighting effects, etc.

I love the product UI, its so easy and understandable, crystal clear with its UI and flows

GIMP, they can allow to change the theme of background.

I don't have much knowledge to edit the photo, when starting with GIMP it had given me tools-tour, and how to use each tool in the toolbox, that is really helpful and to understand it better

The similarity to Photoshop workflow. It is an almost seamless transition for the regular Adobe user.

It is somewhat limited in resources and document formats fidelity output

Gimp helps our workflow as we can have it installed in all of our collaborators machines for free and they can make quick edits on the images and graphics when needed.

I'm not into heavy graphics editing but I've been using GIMP for some minor edits. Despite being free, it has tons of features that are beneficial for me. In fact, I like it even more than PS since it doesn't require a lot of RAM for you to use it.

I think none so far. I haven't been doing some heavy editing as of the moment so I have no complains about the tool so far. At least I am able to accomplish my photo editing tasks using it.

I am using GIMP mainly for adjusting the photo dimensions without having to compromise its quality. I used to use paint for this one but the image quality is not too good when you do the resizing.

I like the ease of creating layers with Gimp. There are also online tutorials on YouTube for easy access.

It appears to have it all. I am still learning the various aspects of designing my art worksheets.

I write up art lessons and need to create worksheets using type, photos and page layout.

I love that GIMP is free to use, making it easier for users and organizations to access and choose as an image editing software. GIMP's code is open-source, so software developers can improve and customize the software to suit their individual needs. It has an active community, so any bugs that appear are immediately reported and fixed quickly. I like that GIMP is cross-platform with available Windows, Mac, and Linux downloads. Whether on my laptop or my Linux system, I can easily use GIMP to edit images. Despite being free, GIMP is an excellent competitor to Adobe Photoshop. GIMP has pro features such as layers, masks, customizable brushes, color effects, etc., allowing you to perform in-depth image editing and manipulation seamlessly. Like most open-source applications, GIMP's features can be improved using plugins. You can enhance the functionality and download additional tools to manipulate and edit images better.

GIMP lacks support for CMYK files. GIMP only uses RGB, so the accuracy and control for handling CMYK files are terrible in comparison. If you're working on images that require accurate color management for printing brochures, flyers, etc., GIMP is unsuitable.

GIMP has been an excellent image editing tool for web development. It allows us to optimize and prepare images for website projects and provides features such as compressing, resizing, and optimizing images. These are crucial for decreasing load times and making the web design more efficient. GIMP is also essential for creating charts, diagrams, and other drawings for webinars, documents, and presentation slides. We also use GIMP vehemently for creating prototype interfaces for the software we're working on. It allows us to design and visualize how we want the UI to be with the help of layers. At the basic level, GIMP is excellent for editing images, such as cropping and resizing images, changing colors, removing backgrounds and adding alpha channels, and applying effects to sharpen or blur certain areas. GIMP has been the best implementation without making any monetary investment and allowed us to use the budget to improve other sites.

A robust alternative to Photoshop. The ease of use and powerful tools make even the most advanced Photoshop users right at home. It is fantastic for creative on a budget.

Everyone once in a while you might find something that has not quite been carried over from photoshop in terms of tools, or techniques and you have to find another way to do something.

It helps me with clients who need to open my photoshop files but don't have Photoshop to open them. That way they are able to see on a later by layer basis what changes are needed.

I love the full suite of painting tools such as brush, pencil, and airbrush as I am a crafter who designs logos and svgs for customers. It makes life easy!

It does become complicated to edit photos that are big and require more than two layers. Creating a good clean presentation can be challenging as well

Using fewer tools to design doesn't make it hard to create and bring out new ideas. It has helped me with learning within a short time frame.

The fact that it is Open Source and Cross Platform. I can share/use/update files on Linux, Windows and Android platforms.

I'm not aware of anything I dislike about GIMP

Photo Editing for web use, copy use, and photo editing tasks.

GIMP is a well-rounded image manipulator. It's incredibly powerful, especially for freeware. I use it predominantly for use in ArcGIS. I often need to overlay historical maps, and GIMP helps me to clean up a lot of the noise. It also helps me convert between file types easily. I especially enjoy the ability to drag and drop a PDF and convert any page to a .tiff file. If your company is looking for a cheap and easy way to deal with images needing pre-processing, GIMP is a great choice. There are way more functions and uses akin to Photoshop but I am not well versed in that program to provide a comparison.

There is a learning curve like any other powerful program. But a lot of functions are easy to use and very natural to use regardless of any experience with any other program.

I deal with many historical maps that are not always in the best digital condition. Often its scanned images or even just photos of a photo. I use these images as overlays to create maps of archaeological data. Often times these maps require some cleanup before they can be brought into ArcGIS. On the simpler side, I use GIMP to crop and adjust images. On the more complex side, I use tools like Despeckle and Threshold to clarify old maps. It's also very useful for converting between file formats. It can even maintain or remove projection files from USGS maps.

I use GIMP primarily for editing images and layer-wise correction of images. This tool has dramatically helped me to work with image processing for big and small needs.

While GIMP is a great tool to work with, I find it a bit RAM-consuming, and my laptop functions a bit slower when it is running. This is probably a personal issue, but I would love it if there were a fix.

I work in the software industry, and in a more specific manner, I work with a tool that performs automated testing through image processing. I struggled a few days back with other image editing tools like Photopea, but this is the best.

GIMP provides a complete powerful image Manipulating toolkit as absolutely free. No hidden condition. The affordability makes it easier for new users and small business to leverage a high quality image editing tool without having to being caught up with subscriptions.

Since GIMP is free, it lacks in some places. Nothing extremely significant,but important features. Like for example, GIMP could improve the UI to accommodate new users.

I very frequenctly use GIMP in creating, editing and exporting high quality images for presentations and websites. Since I am not a full time designer, my usage with inages is sporadic, hence GIMP is perfect for me as I don't have to worry about subscribing everytime I have to use a image editor.

As a free program, this software is great. Great features and enables great photo editing.

Limited features but for a free service it is awesome.

A marketing manager who does a great deal of content creation this is a great photo editing tool.

GIMP is a free and open-source image editing software available for any OS. It's the best free substitute for Adobe Photoshop as it's free and contains advanced image-editing features unavailable in Paint. You can add and work with multiple layers for an image, making editing and adding new content easier. GIMP has easy tools to resize images without losing much quality and scale images up or down. GIMP allows you to rotate pictures or layers with ease. The best part of GIMP is the transparency layer, where you can draw anything with an alpha background. You can remove borders from images and crop the image to the content efficiently. You can recolor any part or the entire image seamlessly through features such as recolor, highlights-shadows, hue-lightness-saturation, etc. GIMP is a universal image editor that supports any format. You can save the images you work on as PNG, JPG, TIFF, GIF, etc. GIMP can also be used to open WebP images in the editor. Compared to Photoshop, which now requires a $20 subscription every month, GIMP is the next best solution for any new or novice designer looking for the best alternative.

GIMP's boot time is slow. It takes a few seconds after you right-click on an image file and select Open with GIMP for it to open the editor finally. The only downside to GIMP is that you cannot build a career with it. The design industry heavily prefers Photoshop and those well-experienced in it as it's the standard. While GIMP is excellent for beginners, it has no scope outside personal use.

GIMP has been my go-to image editing solution for well over a decade. Converting from PNG to JPG or other file formats has been relatively easy, thanks to GIMP. When I save images from Chrome, they're always saved under the WebP format, which the default image viewer or Paint on Windows cannot open. Using GIMP, I can conveniently open the images to edit or save them as JPG or PNG for less hassle. GIMP is very handy for web designing projects where we use the image editor to make layouts and banners we embed on the website using CSS. I also use GIMP to help create slides for presentations wherever an image or a banner is required to make the presentation more visually appealing. As someone who previously used Photoshop and switched to GIMP since it was free, there's not a single feature I miss in Photoshop, as GIMP covers everything.

The ease that I can manipulate images taken by any type of camera. From an old pocket digital to my cell phone I can use just about ANY photo using the tools in the program. It can make any picture better. In my business I sometimes get photos that are too dark or slightly out of focus, this software makes it so I don't have to go and take the photos again and again.

The software interface can be a little intimidating, and the User's Manual can be a bit unclear at times. It is written more for a person with a graphic arts background, and non-specialists will have some problem interpreting the meaning of some of the terms used.

One of the most complex parts of listing a home is getting the marketing photos right. Before I started using GIMP, there were times that I had to make two or three trips to houses. When those houses are 30 or 40 minutes away, it can make for wasted time.

Great selection of tools that are as good as premium editors you pay a lot for monthly.

Nothing so far love it! We recommend it to friends and clients.

We need to edit a large random of graphics before we laser engrave them on chopping boards and slate. This software does a great job every time.

It has a lot of features, enough from amateurs up to pro photographers and illustrators.

Sometimes, when you need a quick edition on a photo, its amount of options is overwhelming.

Having full-featured photo editing software at zero cost. Another: being a Linux user, the paid competitor (Photoshop) is not available.