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  Reviewed by: lonylee

  08-02-2009

  Duration of ownership: 5 Years

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  Reviewed by: mikldroopy

  07-16-2009

  Duration of ownership: 5 Years

  Strengths: Features, features, and more features. I've used Corel and this will do almost anything that Corel will do. Tons of free brushes and plugins. Best of all it is completely free.

  Weaknesses: The interface is sometimes hard to access. Also, some plugins don't work well (or at all) even if they come from the GIMP plugin website. Then again there are a lot of commercial programs you could say the same of. As I said you can do almost everything you can in a high end program with the GIMP. The downside is that you have to go through more steps and more menus to do it. I.E. the interface is not as intuitive as a commercial program.

  Overall Evaluation: Well worth the download. It really is a Photo Shop quality program, it just takes longer to get the same results because of having to dig through menus.

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  Reviewed by: jcorll

  07-14-2008

  Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

  Strengths: Filters, and the massive amounts of tools one can use, powerful, lots of preferences (i.e. how many processors do you want it to use; max-min cache settings) its free... Open-source

  Weaknesses: Uses lots of RAM, on setup it doesn't tell you that it will install about 16 different languages thus causing the final file size to be 67.5 MB opposed to the setup without the translations for 34.5 MB. always click the "Customize" you will save a little on disk space.... also the pictures have a default cache of 200+ MB. I lowered mine (at the expense of lower quality pics) to about 75MB.

  Overall Evaluation: This is a great tool (if i had a blazing fast processor!) this is a tool for the true amateur photographer in all of us. Before i downloaded this i used Paint.NET, i think i will try this for a little more and if i dont use it much i will be going back to Paint.NET.

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  Reviewed by: shakyone

  07-12-2008

  Duration of ownership: 6 Years

  Strengths: Very Powerful. Advanced interface. Excellent user base with ample tutorials. Thorough documentation.

  Weaknesses: Used to have to install the GTK, however version 2.4 no longer has that requirement. Portable version (2.4) crashed on me once during use, but have not had that problem with the normal install. Not 16 bit color, not multi-threaded for color. The 16 bit color will be part of the next major overhaul. Don´t know about the multiple processor/multithreaded future. If that is important, Paint.NET is very fast on dual-core+ processors, but it is still 8-bit color. Krita is 16 bit color, but very simple compared to the above two.

  Overall Evaluation: I have been using it for a long time. I have only scratched the surface of its capabilities. Warp sharp is a fantastic sharpening plugin, better than most programs. I will never buy another photo editor. If

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  Reviewed by: Number3124

  12-10-2007

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: It's vary good for power users and tinkerers.

  Weaknesses: Offers to many options for average users.

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  Reviewed by: foolishfish

  08-07-2007

  Duration of ownership: 4 Years

  Strengths: Easier layout to learn than Photoshop, killer features, low low price! (free!) it's open source, so if you want a feature that it doesn't have, you can add it.

  Weaknesses: you have to install the gtk runtime before installing the gimp or it won't work.

  Overall Evaluation: I love it. It's on all my linux computers by default, it runs on mac as well. why pirate photoshop when there's a better tool..... free.

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