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filed under If you are looking for an alternative image manipulation software which is free and open source; Gimp will be the best alternative for you. Gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. New version 2.4.5 of Gimp has been released today. This version is a bugfix release in the stable 2.4 series. Gimp comes by default in many Linux distribution. However, this piece of software can be installed in MS Windows and Mac OS X.
Gimp ables to do what Adobe Photoshop can do and it can read and write most of Photoshop native PSD format files. However, Photoshop does not support Gimp’s XFE file format.
The advantages of Gimp over Photoshop are:
- Free and open soure
- Faster than Photoshop
- Easy to use
- Multi-platform software
- It allows for plug-in and scripting
- It has a small footprint – it is small in size compared to Adobe Photoshop.
Common features that Gimp has are:
- Selection tools
- Color selection tools
- Image transormation
- Layers
- Undo History
- Image creation
- Filters
For windows user
System Requirement:
- Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista.
- 128 Mb of RAM.
Installing: Download the installer.
For linux user
Check here for installation process
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if you are looking for free Photoshop alternative then try GimPhoto.
actually GimPhoto is GIMP 2.4 modification with new PS menu layout, packed with many great plugins, such as: separation, save for web, batch process, noise removal and photography filters, and also improved with new brushset, new gradientset, every aspect is tweaked to improve user usability.