GIMP

GIMP

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
GIMP	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	GIMP is a free, open-source graphics software. GIMP, or General Image Manipulation Program was developed in 1996 and has continued to be updated by volunteers since then.	N/A

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GIMP

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GIMP
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Community Pulse
	GIMP
Considered Both Products	GIMP Verified User Professional Chose GIMP Canva and Picsart are both free and can do a lot of items, like collages, well, but if you want to do actual photo editing or pixel art, I recommend GIMP. If you have the money, I would go with Photoshop, but for a free program, GIMP is just as good. Incentivized Helpful? MW Michael Wagnon Cloud System Engineer Chose GIMP No other products were used. Incentivized Helpful? BM Brian McMahon Manager of Technology Chose GIMP While Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are the gold standards, there is nothing I've used for as long which compares for overall graphical content creation/editing offered freely that comes close to what GIMP can accomplish. For vector formats, I prefer to work in something more … Incentivized Helpful? Rene Agredano Advocacy Journalist and Co-Founder Chose GIMP Online services like Canva are fine for quickly designing brochures and marketing materials, videos, etc. They're user friendly and fast if you have a good connection. But if you're in production mode and need to do a lot of photo manipulation at once, without being connected … Incentivized Helpful? HM Haley Mattison Admin and Data Assistant Chose GIMP Very similar feature with the greatest difference really being paid vs. free platform. This is important to note especially for larger organizations. Incentivized Helpful? MN Musab Nismy Founder Chose GIMP Adobe PhotoShop is another great photo editing software that has way more features and tools than GIMP. But, Adobe PhotoShop asks for a hefty price every month or every year, thus pulling it down in our analysis rankings. After analysing both the costs and the amount of … Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Thommarson Key Player Chose GIMP I looked at getting Adobe Illustrator before finding GIMP. The cost was prohibitive to me, as I was looking for something that would allow me to work on the images I had at a low cost. I could not justify buying Adobe Illustrator for the small amount of use I would get out of … Incentivized Helpful? Zach Lung Digital Marketing Specialist Chose GIMP GIMP runs much smoother on my Mac laptop than Adobe Photoshop with less bugs and freezes than I have suffered through from Adobe in general. The tools available on GIMP have also been easier for me to figure out and put into action than my experiences with Photoshop. The fact … Incentivized Helpful? Stiavetti Daniele Architetto Chose GIMP It is not easy to find a free image editing software with the same quality. This software gives the advantages of a very expensive one for free. No compatibility problems with other softwares. Easy to use but complete interface. You launch it for the first time and you feel … Helpful? Adam Jackson FGCLP MAHRI Founder & Co-Owner Chose GIMP The full Photoshop application is an extremely good program, but costly. GIMP stacks up fairly well against Photoshop in regard to functionality, and the developers are agile and adding updates to functions frequently. In comparing the two programs and our need for relatively … Incentivized Helpful? Paola Santino Senior Web Developer Chose GIMP Adobe Photoshop is very powerful software, however it is expensive and requires equipment with specific requirements to be able to run it. Canva use them to create basic and fast designs from any of my devices. Instead, I choose GIMP because it is a very light graphic editor … Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose GIMP GIMP pretty much has all the tools that Photoshop has except it doesn't have the cost. If you know Photoshop, you'll know how to use GIMP. There are a few nuance differences between the tools but in general, GIMP can compete pound for pound with Photoshop. I initially was … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro User friendly Pro Intuitive interface
Top Cons	Minus Difficult to use Minus Large file Minus Open source software

Best Alternatives
	GIMP
Small Businesses	CorelDRAW Graphics Suite Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Adobe PhotoShop Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Adobe PhotoShop Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	GIMP
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	4.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	GIMP
Likelihood to Recommend	GIMP Development Team GIMP is great for anyone ranging from personal use to a small business. But, if you are a large business and have a sufficient budget, I would recommend you to opt for an expensive paid software like Photoshop, that would provide not only great features but also public recognition. Its great for beginners wanting to start editing photos, there is a small learning curve that could be gotten used to in no time. Incentivized MN Musab Nismy Founder Read full review
Pros	GIMP Development Team GIMP has a large number of tools at your disposal for manipulating any type of image and exporting in any necessary format. GIMP does a great job of making everything intuitive so that even a new user can layer images or make an image transparent in little time. Incentivized Zach Lung Digital Marketing Specialist Read full review
Cons	GIMP Development Team GIMP should make the font tool more intuitive. Make it easier to change fonts during edit process without resetting the typeface selection. Build in selection/move ability within tools like the typeface tool... I.e. don't require toggle between selection tool and typeface tool when wanting to move a line of type within a layer. Likewise with shapes, etc. Incentivized BM Brian McMahon Manager of Technology Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	GIMP Development Team Capability, open architecture, compatibility with Photoshop plugins, wide platform coverage; To me, as an open-source, freely available application, it's the nest-in-class. Incentivized BM Brian McMahon Manager of Technology Read full review
Usability	GIMP Development Team I interface GIMP with other software--I need to. I generally use the major calculation, CAD, word processing, and photo editing programs. In my office, my use of this software is not limited to computer-aided design. However, I am sure that if I needed this software for other purposes, it would have no interface problems. Stiavetti Daniele Architetto Read full review
Support Rating	GIMP Development Team We have never needed to use the support functions for GIMP. Any queries we have or had about whether GIMP could complete a task we have used Google and YouTube. There is a wealth of information, guides, and forums dedicated to GIMP and how to perform certain tasks with the application. Incentivized Adam Jackson FGCLP MAHRI Founder & Co-Owner Read full review
Implementation Rating	GIMP Development Team As simple as can be. Download from GIMP website and install. Incentivized BM Brian McMahon Manager of Technology Read full review
Alternatives Considered	GIMP Development Team Online services like Canva are fine for quickly designing brochures and marketing materials, videos, etc. They're user friendly and fast if you have a good connection. But if you're in production mode and need to do a lot of photo manipulation at once, without being connected to the web at all times and just want to focus, GIMP is the go-to product for you Incentivized Rene Agredano Advocacy Journalist and Co-Founder Read full review
Return on Investment	GIMP Development Team GIMP is freeware, which allows organizations that are not graphics-centered to use the powerful toolset without spending money on very expensive alternatives GIMP is fairly easy to learn and does not require extensive user training (especially, if used for basic tasks) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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