GIMP Reviews

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free raster graphic editor application to handle digital graphics and photographs. If you don't want to buy commercial programs with hundreds of dollars (Adobe PhotoShop, Corel, Serif), DIMP is the alternative without any cost.

GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package. The latest version is GIMP 2.6.4 released on 1 January 2009. It includes almost all the basic functions that as a raster graphic editor: selection editing, layers, histogram, scripting, retouching, resizing, noise removal, lens correction, sized printing, sharpening, color correction and more.



Color support

sRGB

Adobe RGB

Indexed

Grayscale

HSV

Platforms support

GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)

Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)

Mac OS X

Sun OpenSolaris

FreeBSD

Files support:

Read / Write support for popular image formats: RAW imports, BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, PSD, PSP, XCF, PCX

Save as archive extension: ZIP, GZ or BZ2

More open source software related to GIMP: CinePaint, KolourPaint, Pixen, Tile Studio, Tux Paint
More freeware related to GIMP: Artweaver, Brush Strokes Image Editor, IrfanView, Pixia, Picasa
More commercial software related to GIMP: Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk SketchBook Pro, Corel Painter, Ulead PhotoImpact, Project Dogwaffle.