GIMP review: This free image editor is no longer a crippled alternative to Photoshop
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Last updated 17 Jul 2024
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GIMP has long been viewed as a poor relation to Photoshop, mostly of interest to Linux users. However, it has come a long way and is a very worthy, and very powerful, image editor now matter what platform you use.
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