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Saturday, March 20, 2004

GIMP 2.0 is about to be released. You can download a windows installer here. I've been using GIMP for ages now and I have to say it is very cool. I see little reason to spend $700 per dev on a copy of Photoshop for misc. icon editing / image conversion, etc. GIMP beats the hell out of Paint for that type of thing (it can actually do just about everything Photoshop can) and the zero dollar price tag sure is nice.

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I remember messing around with GIMP way back in 1998-1999? It sure has come a long way since then!

Darrell - Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:00:00 PM
I'm confused. What do you mean by "GIMP beats the hell out of notepad for that type of thing"?

Shannon J Hager - Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:56:00 PM
Lol... let me fix that. I meant paint.

Jesse Ezell - Sunday, March 21, 2004 5:04:00 AM
I love the GIMP too. Some of my Photoshop head friends say it lacks things but it is great for me. It has more image editing power than I will ever need.

JosephCooney - Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:54:00 PM
GIMP does CMYK in 2.0

Jesse Ezell - Sunday, March 21, 2004 6:48:00 PM
Funny, I installed GIMP in my PC and didn't see any APP FOLDER anywhere *shrugs*

dejavu - Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:51:00 PM
GIMP rocks... Not as good as photoshop... but photoshop ain't $700 better than GIMP!

GIMP is perfect for game modding, image manipulation (Size, orientation, effects), gadget customisation (PSP, Cell-phone) and for home website projects to mention just a few of it's uses. Used in combination with Irfanview (Free media viewer and image manipulator) there's not realy many features you'll need that they don't have between them.

Hindley's Hell Hole - Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:36:40 PM

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