GIMP 2.68: Free Alternative to Adobe Photoshop

If you are looking for a very good alternative to Adobe Photoshop, you can try GIMP. 

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. What it is capable of doing is practically everything that Adobe Photoshop is capable of doing. The best thing about this computer program is it is FREE.

Most likely, a lot of us have been very accustomed to using Adobe Photoshop. If you know how to use Adobe Photoshop, surely, using GIMP should not pose any trouble. It basically operates in much the same way as Adobe Photoshop. All you have to do is explore a little and find out more about the functions... and stuff, which are not much different from those in Adobe Photoshop.

Here are some of the features and capabilities of GIMP as stated in the GIMP website:

• Painting
  • Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
  • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
  • Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
  • Supports custom brushes and patterns
• System
  • Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
  • Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
• Advanced Manipulation
  • Full alpha channel support
  • Layers and channels
  • Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
  • Editable text layers
  • Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
  • Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
  • Foreground extraction tool
  • Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
  • Transformable paths, transformable selections.
  • Quickmask to paint a selection.
• Extensible
  • A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
  • Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
  • Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
  • Over 100 plug-ins already available
• Animation
  • Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
  • MNG support
  • Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
• File Handling
  • File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
  • Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
  • SVG path import/export
• Much, much more!

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CLICK HERE FOR THE DOWNLOAD LINK (For Windows XP SP2 or later)

*Click the Download Gimp 2.68 link

Or you may Click here for the homepage of their website for more information on the software.