I use Gimp 2.............on a IBook......I use to have alot of art applications.....in OS 9.0, but in OSX I have not bought any yet, and I may not ever now that I found GIMP.......For basic artm and photo editing it works great......I have not tested all the export options but for web work it seems to work great.........and best of all it is free.

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

also for PC people......

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

I am using Gimp, but for a while didn't do anything special, due to I didn't have the need to do something.. more busy with programming lately..

Gimp is really great, it can do so much and I see that more and more resources are spreading in the net, different tutorials and articles of how to do something, what others are used to do with other graphic suits, like photoshop and etc. which is quite expensive, if you aren't to serious about graphics.

It really is a great choice, and by far the best free open source option I have yet to see for graphic design options. I personally use the old standard, photoshop, as I have access to a copy but if you don't the gimp is an amazing substitute as people can create many comparable level design with the toolset provided without the overhead of the expensive software purchase. While I know the gimp is not for everyone as I know of a handful of people who simply do not like it for whatever reason (tools available, gui design, intuitiveness, etc) for the majority of users it is a great application that will serve them very well. I recommend it to anyone looking for an image editor without the coin to drop on photoshop (or that has it but isn't serious enough about image editing to do so).

I really love GIMP. It came with my ubuntu installation right out of the box. It's really a great software and you can do everything (or almost, not sure) that you could with a paid software, like photoshop. I'm not really a graphic designer, but I do like to edit pictures to my liking, and so far GIMP has given me all the tools I need for that.

I really hope someday it could be considered as one of the best software out there for editing images, because it really is a good piece of software that deserves the best.

Ah, the Gimp. I love that program. Back in December 2007, I downloaded it on both my linux and windows partition of my PC, and started using it. It was hard at first, but I gradually learnt things about it and gone to the level I was at when I used photoshop, and discovered many interesting effects, though a basic gradient is usually my favourite still. I recommend anyone reading this to download it.

I use GIMP usually, but for more advanced things I use Photoshop ... lol, GIMP is a great alternative.

xboxrulz

GIMP is definitely a great alternative to Photoshop, though I have to say if you are switching from Photoshop and are used to Photoshop, making the switch can take some time. A lot of the locations of buttons in GIMP are quite different from Photoshop. (Personally, I don't really like their icon set...some of the icons, such as the one from "cropping" are really unintuitive. Then again, it took me quite some time to find the cropping icon in Photoshop without a manual, so I can't really say Adobe's is better...)

The GIMP, IMO, covers most of the things your average user would need. Most people don't need all the flashy things that Photoshop has to offer, and only really use GIMP's subset of Photoshop's features, such as layers, replacing backgrounds, lighten, darken, etc---basically things that pertain to image editing for amusement.

The difference between the GIMP and Photoshop lies in their support for print design. Photoshop supports CMYK, which is very important for anyone designing for print. The GIMP, unfortunately, does not. (I do wonder why...)

Anyways, if anyone is annoyed at the GIMP's ui, they can always download Gimpshop (http://www.gimpshop.com/), which changes the ui to feel similar to that of Photoshop's.

--arbitrary

I do use the GIMP, but I don't use it for advanced photo editing, just some basic stuff I don't need photoshop for

I have heard so much about GIMP, but I never needed to really use it. I think that if someone I know would need something like that, I would probably try it and then recommend it. I think I have posted many times about GIMP, so I won't do the Photoshop is great response.

My opinion is that I think GIMP may be good to use on a personal and fun level... But I think that on a professional level, it would be good to use Photoshop... or maybe that is just what I have learned.

But then again, I always go back to 'use what you know and like.'

- skedad -

I used it but it gave only errors.
But i stil like it, its like free photoshop with less features.