I spent far too much time editing photos in this program yesterday. I may not quite be the digital junkie I was back around the turn of the century; I no longer believe that Usenet can save the world, life can be better virtually or that we’ll all be in a symbiotic relationship with a machine in a few years (Despite the IPhone.). I can still manage to be a little obsessive once in a while.
Gimp is a “free” photo editing program. It’s built and maintained by the free software community. Many people from many places around the globe have had a hand in its construction in the years since 1996 when it was introduced. The toolkit it spawned has served as a basis for quite a few programs. Many of which I also use.
Gimp runs on just about every system out there. Personally, I use linux on a day to day basis. I don’t actually dislike Windows or Apple. Chrome Os or Android for that matter. I have a Windows partition on this machine and a Windows machine connected to the printer in the studio. I just prefer the simplicity, functionality and elegance of linux for most things.
This is one of the few editors out there that can actually compete with Photoshop. 🙂 I don’t dislike Photoshop either. I own just about every version of it that came out before the CC license and have made a living with it off and on for many years. It’s an exceptional program. I still have version 2.54 on floppy disks. I also have many of the program’s competitors on floppy. (CD, etc)
In my mind, Gimp is a better solution. It doesn’t wash the dishes or fold your socks. It does do what I want from a photo editor… It edits photos. …Very well.
Studio Time 