Adobe Photoshop is currently the most frequently used commercial image editing application, recognized by professional designers and editors as the single most important tool.
But for the majority of users, the opensource alternative GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) will be able to accomplish all of the same editing tasks. And the open source nature of GIMP ensures that other requested features will likely be available in the near future. GIMP was designed to be extended with plugins to do just about anything. Today, hundreds of enthusiastic software programmers are voluntarily contributing to the project, as we so often see in the opensource community.
GIMP is freely distributed software with many capabilities for such tasks as image composition, photo retouching, and image authoring. The advanced scripting interface of the Gimp, allows you to do everything, from the simplest tasks to the most complex image editing procedures.
So did you always wanted to have Photoshop software on your computer to edit photo’s and images, but never felt like to fork out a few hundred dollars to purchase the application? Now you can do the same and more with GIMP, the ultimate free alternative.
Download the latest stable version of GIMP:
Additionally you might want to download some free plugins for The GIMP. All these are written with Python and should run on Linux and Windows Platforms.