First let me tell you what GIMP is first, GIMP is a freeware and open-source raster graphic editing tool. The full form of GIMP is GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is used for image editing and retouching, free form drawing, convert images into different formats, and more specialized work. This program is released under GPLv3+ licenses and is available for macOS, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
Incase you are wondering the Features of GIMP:
Manage color efficiently
This tool comes with a customizable user interface
It helps you touch up digital photographs captured from the camera.
It has basic vector graphic features.
Enhance photos with ease.
Supports different hardware devices, including the MIDI controller, USB, etc.
Export to JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and more file formats.
You can open unlimited number of images at one time.
GIMP supports the full alpha channel.
Multiple undo or redo is possible.
It provides transformable selections and paths.
It has a foreground extraction tool.
Up to 100 readily available plugins.
You can load, display, convert, and save the GIMP file to many formats.
Easy to use gradient editor and blend tool
The following are Tools of GIMP:
Selections tools: square region, eclipse, lasso, scissors, foreground, fuzzy, etc.
Brush tools: Blend, paintbrush, airbrush, clone, heal, and more, pencil, smudge, dodge, ink, perspective clone, and bucket fill.
Transform tools: Move, crop, rotate, scale, flip, scale, align, and perspective.
Color tools: Color balance, colorize, brightness-contrast, threshold, posturize, desaturate, threshold, levels, curves, brightness-contrast tool, hue-saturation, etc.
Other tools: Path, measure, magnify, and color picker tool.
Now for a quick comparison of the GIMP and Photoshop. GIMP is a FREE image editing software whereas Photoshop is a PAID image editing software. GIMP and Photoshop both contains numerous plugins, but photoshop plugins are designed by the famous photo brands like Phase One, Kodak, and more. GIMP contains fewer tools while Photoshop contains a lot of tools. You cannot use GIMP to edit pictures on the smartphone while Photoshop can be used to edit pictures on the smartphone. As GIMP is communal software, standards are not classified on the other hand, Photoshop runs on industrial standards. GIMP is used for general purposes, and Photoshop is used professionally.
Here are the important reasons of using GIMP:
When it is a matter of price
If you have Linux operating system, you can prefer GIMP over Photoshop.
There are numerous apps that allow you to crop a photo, add brightness or contrast, but with the GIMP app, you can do real editing work.
GIMP is portable, so you can easily keep it in a pen drive and carry it with you anywhere.
You can use a desktop or laptop as a temporary image editing machine, as you have complete software with you.
The following are Advantages of Gimp:
The most significant advantage of GIMP is that it is free.
GIMP can run from a cloud, external drive, or local folder without installing it into your computer system.
It contains all advanced features like paths and layers.
You can remove backgrounds from photos.
Photoshop files can be opened in GIMP. It means you are able to use Photoshop brushes and patterns in GIMP.
It has a smarter menu system that is more useful than the one present in Photoshop.
It has well-developed tools to work with image masking.
This image editing tool is faster than Photoshop when you work with small photos, which are targeting web design.
It is a user-friendly software for beginners.
The following are Disadvantages of Gimp:
GIMP cannot handle anything other than 8bit RGB, grayscale as well as indexed images.
It contains limited third-party plugins compare to photoshop.
GIMP does not perform well if you need to edit big images with lots of layers.
Creating good looking arc shape in GIMP software may be difficult.
GIMP has fewer tools compared to Photoshop. You can find a few GIMP app tutorials.
In conclusion, Gimp is a portable, free graphic design software that is extremely user friendly. I will be looking the Photoshop side in another Blog post so you can formulate your own post.
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