Gimp me more (give me more) (Gimp)

Member Name: maya26

Product:	Gimp
Date:	28/05/09 (165 review reads)
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Advantages: easy to use, cheap, very useful

Disadvantages: not as sophisticated as Photoshop

GIMP stands for General Image Manipulation Program or GNU Image Manipulation Program, it's a free software that you can use to enhance, edit or play with your pictures. It's like an Adobe Photoshop thing but it's cheaper of course and I think there's much more difference in terms of sophistication and application. Just type the word GIMP and click the link where you can download the program and it's done, small size program 84.96MB. It has so many versions now because of some adjustment or enhancement to make the program much easier to use. Right now I got the 2.6 version, which is I think is the latest version and this version is less complicated than the other versions. This supports JPG, GIF and BMP.

Things to do with GIMP

Change color background.
Picture Resizing
Fix color balance
Animation
Signatures
Logos
Picture enhancement and many more

Look

Gimp has a cute logo, I'm not sure what animal it is but it's a cute one. Once you open GIMP 3 boxes will appear these are the menu boxes that contains all the functional tools. The main menu, the toolbox and the paths, layers ,channels menu, these are the boxes that will appear. In the toolbox, all the cool tools are there, like brushes, eraser, scale tool and others, while in the paths, layers, channels, menu this is like the edit box and the final look of your project will appear here.

My experience

I love playing with this program, I already did so many things with it. I was looking for a program that will help me edit some of our photos, the digital once of course, because some have dark spots and I also want to learn how to do those editing stuff with pictures. This is not as sophisticated as Adobe Photoshop but I can say that this is a very helpful program for those who just want to edit digital photos that they have. Mainly the program is free but you can donate to help those people who make or "share" adjustments with the program. To learn about it or get some tutorials, go to youtube.com and just type GIMP and things regarding what to do with this program will appear.

Another thing this is what I really got with this program, you can't really say now what is genuine photo is, especially those in magazine.

Summary: Picture editing.

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