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Software review :

GIMP ( also known as GNU Image Manipulation Program ) is a free image manipulation program. It is being developed since 1995 and it's supported by almost all Microsoft Windows, MAC OS X and UNIX systems. This program is a professional free alternative that have almost all the features that commercial programs have, like image authoring, photo retouching and image composition. The most beautiful thing at this image manipulation program is his ability to complete task required by both professionals and beginners. GIMP has approximately 150 standard effects and filters, including Drop Shadow, Blur, Motion blur and Noise. According to their official website, GIMP should run on any NT-based version of Windows (NT4, 2000, XP or Vista). Older GIMP versions (2.0.x) could also work with older versions of Windows such as Windows 95 but they are not supported anymore. The amount of memory can be an important factor, especially if you intend to work on large images. A minimum of 128 MB of RAM is recommended, but the more RAM the better. There are many tutorials and books available for GIMP on the Internet. If you are a beginner you can learn more about GIMP in a relative short period of time, while professionals that are looking to switch from a commercial platform may find easier and faster ways to get used with GIMP features.

Editor's review :

Using GIMP seems to be pretty easy at a first look however it's not that simple. Sure, if you wish to do the same things that you could easily do with any other image manipulation program you can really do it from your experience. It's not complicated at all. GIMP is very easy to use and very intuitive, not to mention that is highly portable. For complicated operations with large image manipulations you will need to study a lot more. Fortunately, GIMP is free and so with the documentation for GIMP - it's free. You can find a lot of interesting tutorials and documents about how to use GIMP or how to manipulate images with GIMP. You will need to have some free time until you will be able to consider yourself as an GIMP expert. Probably GIMP is the freeware version of Adobe Photoshop, still it doesn't have all the features of Photoshop and vice versa. There are many issues on the Internet regarding those two graphical programs but since I tested a lot of graphical programs I consider that it depends on your taste. For example I have friends that are using Photoshop just because they use it for the first time a long time ago and they get used with it and now they recognise that GIMP, although it's free it does ( at least theoretically ) the same things that Photoshop can do. Many users are coming from others software and they are migrating to GIMP. I guess you have to download GIMP, install it and if you like it, all you have to do is to make sure that you have the latest version installed on your computer.

Other notes :

No technical issues were reported while using GIMP. It is extremely portable and it runs on almost all Microsoft Windows versions. If you want to use GIMP and you inted to edit large images you should know that you will need at least 128 RAM installed on your PC. It would be better to have more RAM installed so that you can experience the features of this software at the highest level. Another thing that you should do would be to avoid editing the same image using two graphical software in the same time. If you want to try it you can do it by using them one at a time so that you can avoid editing conflicts. There are many incompatibilities for file support regarding popular graphical software like the fact that Photoshop does not support GIMP's native XCF file format, but GIMP can read and write most Photoshop native PSD format files.