GimPhoto is a modification of the
free 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
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. It is the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editin ...
.
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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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 or GIMP may refer to:
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Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc., Adobe for Microsoft Windows, Windows and macOS. It was created in 1987 by Thomas Knoll, Thomas and John Knoll. It is the most used tool for professional digital ...
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Comparison of raster graphics editors
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List
General information
Basic general information about the editor: creator, company, license, etc.
Operating system support
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GIMPshop
GIMPshop was a modification of the Free software, free and Open-source software, open source graphics program GIMP, GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), with the intent to imitate the look and feel of Adobe Photoshop.
History
GIMPshop was cre ...
References
Free raster graphics editors
Raster graphics editors for Linux
Technical communication tools
Graphics software that uses GTK
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