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• Reviewed by: mrdr

  01-11-2012

  Duration of ownership: 4 Years

  Strengths: Can add many plugins, it's free and runs on all operating systems.

  Weaknesses: Not the easiest software to learn, but well worth the effort.

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• Reviewed by: jebadiah

  07-16-2011

  Duration of ownership: 2 Years

  Strengths: Very versatile program. FREE

  Weaknesses: Needs more depth on some apps.

  Overall Evaluation: Excellent product!

• Reviewed by: ribroast

  12-02-2010

  Duration of ownership: 8 Years

  Strengths: Powerful, Free

  Weaknesses: Takes a bit of time and pain, to learn.

  Overall Evaluation: With the GIMP you do a lot. I use it to create web graphics such as buttons, ect. With the GIMP I can make very high quality original images from scratch. Even though I have used it for years, it can be frustrating at times to accomplish exactly what I want. This is because I will try something different than what I would normally do, and the learning curve comes back to bite me. The end results are always worth it. The GIMP is great if you are willing to put some time in and experiment with it. I have used it for many years and I feel like I have not done everything that it is capable of yet. I have seen many improvements over time, it gets better with each new release.

• 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.

• 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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