What is GIMP?
GIMP Stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.
It is widely regarded as a Photoshop alternative. Although not 100% on par with Photoshop, with enough knowledge of how each tools work, professional work can be done with GIMP. It is available in major operating systems like Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
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From what i read from various forums post and websites on the internet, users often complaint that it is difficult to navigate in GIMP or that it is too complex for new users.
Why I enjoy using GIMP?
Personally i like to use GIMP as it is free and it has the tools i needed for digital painting and more.
Having used Photoshop and GIMP, i think it is beneficial to invest some time learning it than to settle for any other less powerful programs as there are other alternative free programs other than GIMP
Latest version
The current stable version of GIMP is version 2.6.7 and the development release is version 2.7
As you can see from the image above, the windows are separated, you either love it or hate it. This will all end as version 2.8 will introduce the option of single / multi window mode.
Conclude
Concluding this post, GIMP is a powerful program and best of all it is free and open source. Open source means that the source code is available freely and many people can contribute to new features making it one day even more powerful than Photoshop. I'd like to end this with a digital painting.
My drawing using GIMP.
Ok, you do seem to have a clear focus for your blog - do elaborate more and share more on your experience of it and how others have been using it too. Have internal blog links and also blogroll.
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