GimPhoto is a modification of the
free
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and
open source
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graphics program
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), with the intent to be a free replacement to
Adobe
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Photoshop
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.
It has a new menu layout, new brushes and gradient sets. Its primary purpose is to enhance GIMP in terms of user interface, use of the best plugins and other resources combined with the latest stable version of GIMP. Because the menu layouts are much closer to Photoshop's, adaptation from Photoshop is much quicker than GIMP.
Version 24.1 for Windows is with new installer for Windows 8.1 including 7 and new 10.
Version 26.1 for
Mac OS X
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10.6+ is also available. It is based on GIMP 2.6.8 and needs
X11
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X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wi ...
.
Future development
Since GimPhoto is a one-man effort, the developer has chosen to look for a long lasting, stable release of GIMP, before creating a new version of GimPhoto.
See also
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GIMP
GIMP ( ; GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized task ...
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Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Microsoft Windows, Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas Knoll, Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the indu ...
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Comparison of raster graphics editors
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General information
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Operating system support
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Seashore
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GIMPshop
GIMPshop was a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose has been to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable ...
References
Free raster graphics editors
Raster graphics editors for Linux
Technical communication tools
Graphics software that uses GTK
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