Free Software GIMP 2.0 Reviews

Photo editing software seems to be a necessity these days. Who wants to show your vacation photos with friends and relatives without spiffying first? The answer is to use open source software, which is free to download. Try the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP for short) your laptop notebook cheap budget friendly or recycled. GIMP is an extremely powerful and easy to use open source image editing program that is designed to match the menus and functions of the popular Photoshop program. GIMP is cross-platform, running on laptops Mac, Linux and Windows.


The current version of GIMP, GIMP 2.0 is extremely easy to use. Previous versions were a bit complicated to use, but the new version GUI (graphical user interface) has been modified and is extremely easy to find the functions you are already familiar with Photoshop. The new toolbar at the top of the image window, it is much easier to find resources compared to previous versions. For those who have saved their money buying cheap laptop like a netbook or mini-laptop, screen space is scarce and maximizing space for the actual image you are editing is key. The range of new sources has been added, which contains many new sources of choices and text editing tools as well. GIMP includes the path editing functionality a multi-tool undo history, the Healing Brush tool, Pipette and support tool for tablets.

For Windows users, you can run GIMP 2.0 on Windows 2000 and more, perfect for cheap laptops, such as netbooks or laptops deals you find with less power than more expensive varieties. Both programs are a little more polite, so if money is no object to you then please go out and spend money. As for me, I prefer to go free, and spend my money elsewhere. For the casual user, go GIMP! There are plugins and scripts that can add resources to the GIMP does not rule whether the resources that you might need are not available initially.