GIMP.app Photo Editing Feedback

[Ryanmb21]

I recently bought my first mac and am loving it.

Does anybody have any feedback on Gimp app (the open source photoshop) http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Overview.html ?

Looks like a cool program but I've never tried open source stuff.

Some say it does it all Photoshop does in a less streamlined fashion.

 

[Outdoorsben]

I've used it for years. I only use open source programs.

 

[HopLite]

"gimp" is also available via "portableapps.com" I use it as a photoshop lite. Seems to bee good. I use it and would recommend it. I am a basic user so i have not pushed into the advance stuff and cannot provide feedback on advance options.

 

[redbeard]

Meet the GIMP site has some how-to videos. You can do a search in the itunes store to find the podcast link. Might help get started. A friend of mine uses it for all his editing.

 

[Bodo]

great program. I've only been using it for a couple months, but it's very powerful and not hard to get used to.

 

[Root Moose]

Gimp is great for what it is. If you don't have the coin for Photoshop or need the advanced features of Photoshop (99.99999% of us don't), then run Gimp.

Just download it and try it. It's free so no cost except download costs. You're on a Mac so completely removing the program is as simple as deleting gimp.app from /Applications. No registry keys to worry about getting screwed up or anything like that.

I'm a casual user of Photoshop on Mac OS X. I've used Gimp on and off since the late 90s - whenever it first came out as a usable program so have used Gimp quite a bit.

The only thing I ever miss from Photohop when I still occasionally run Gimp is the ease of use of a "Save for web" function. Otherwise I can pretty much do everything in Gimp that I can do in Photoshop. In fact, since I don't use a lot of the functions of Photoshop I suspect I could get along quite nicely with with Photoshop Elements. I do some GUI element design work in Photoshop, not sure if that kind of work can be done in Elements.

HTH