GIMP Has The Right Image For Pictures
Do you spurn Photoshop and use free stuff for improving your images?
If, so you might want to give GIMP a whirl.
This free image editing software is gaining quite a reputation and there are claims that it is the best of the free options, giving paid-for packages a very good run for their money.
It supports a wide range of image formats, especially those popular for internet publishing like jpg, gif and png.
It can even import Photoshop files.
For those who like to use RAW files out of camera there is a handy plugin, UFRaw, that will bring them into GIMP for editing. One of the key reasons for its growing popularity is the ease with which folk can learn to use it.
With most image processors, they are either challenging to learn but deliver great results, like Photoshop, or have simple, press button controls, but deliver a poorer end result.
GIMP seems to have hit a great balance.
Tasks like adjusting the colour or lighting balance, straightening and cropping the picture and cloning out blemishes can be done quickly and easily.
More sophisticated editing challenges are possible and thought by fans to be easier to pick up and use than with the paid for alternative options.
The key downside is that only one image can be works on at once, which might be restrictive for those who like to combine images into montages, superimpose skies from other originals or other tasks involving copying and pasting.
GIMP is readily available online for downloads to Windows computers, or to Linux systems for those who use them.
See https://the-gimp.en.softonic.com/ to get a copy.
