Reviews of The GIMP

1. 
   captainbooyeah

   Reviewing 2.7.0 (Oct 4, 2009)

   HORRIBLE!!!!! nothing but a frickin headache! problem after problem. i dont know who started this "Gimp" hype, but they an informal schooling on photo editing software.
2. 
   dracodos

   Reviewing 2.7.0 (Aug 28, 2009)

   This program has come a long way. So far no issues with 2.7. Runs pretty stable on my Windows 7 system, such as 2.6.7 did. Interface DOES take some getting used to if you're a Photoshop user, (i will say I'm not all thrilled with the "clean slate" window that opens up when you run the app) Once you get past that hurdle this program is a great alternative. I wouldn't go so far as Professional quality but for the price and the quality you do get you just can't beat it!
3. 
   uberfly

   Reviewing 2.7.0 (Aug 27, 2009)

   Yes, very powerful and FREE. Sure, it's a different paradigm than Photoshop, and to rate it down because your unfamiliarity with the application confuses you makes little sense. Is it Photoshop? No. But for what it is it's easily 5 stars.
4. 
   KuHGl

   Reviewing 2.7.0 (Aug 27, 2009)

   Ok altogether, usually I'm known to be really flexible, BUT to be able to work (and I really mean work - not PLAY, what most of the tutorials out there for GIMP describe tediously...) with GIMP one need to be it's developer, I guess.
   Layers, channels... all the absolutely complicating and mostly unlogical combination of these functions make it a work for itself to find ones way through them. You know what? In the time I need to find out, that those functions I'd need are not included,
   I can work on a piece of software for myself.
   Angry I'm not because of GIMP itself, but because of the countless users who prefer to like praising more than criticizing. Using constructive critics every usual software developer makes usable software. Without criticism usable software (not only for a few freaks!) is created only by chance ... and this happens very seldom.
   GIMP in my eyes is simply a result of good developers with an extremely poor feedback - sad to say, but reality. And now it is full of freaky 'functions', but only very few of them are usable without lots of (highly time consuming) experiments. Of course there are many users who recommend it - they either have found ways to reach their goals (most likely) or they are those freaks I already told about.
   But the simple examples "layers, channels" and their usage (to be more correct: Their usability) make me angry. There are such simple ways to combine images - every image is nothing but a (multidimensional) array of numbers which can be combined in countless ways fuss-free ... but not in GIMP, of course.
   Menu by menu I found out, that the operations I intend to realize either are simply not supported or they need to be realized using a completely different way. Since I also have developed programs (one of them for stocks analysis... only to mention, so that not too many people suspect me to be a towers-of-Hanoi 'programmer'...) I claim to understand logic and its concepts. But GIMP does not follow a common logic - sorry.
   If one really has the time to explore a program - then it might be an interesting piece of software. But if one simply wants to manipulate images, for example, I only can recommend much less than 10% of this software (I guess even less than 5 %...). And these methods are good, but much too slow to use them for more than only very few pictures a day (which is unacceptable even if one wants to enhance a small collection of photos, let's say 20 pictures).
   The rating, nonetheless, for the developers would be 4, but the rating mentioned here is a rating for the 'solution' named GIMP... which is definitely no solution in my eyes for a normal case.
   Ok, to be correct: Commercial products are not really better in my eyes (reasons...? See above!).
5. 
   some guy

   Reviewing 2.7.0 (Aug 27, 2009)

   best freeware Paint program plain and simple. If you want something better get ready to pay for it.

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