GIMP (short for GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a very capable open-source image editing app akin to Adobe Photoshop. It’s been around since 1998 and it’s still in active development to this day.
Sure, the keyboard shortcuts aren’t quite the same and the interface is far from professional, but GIMP can do a lot of the same image manipulation, photo retouching, effects editing, and composition adjustments that Photoshop can do — and it does it all for free.
Related: Tips and tricks for GIMP beginners
Okay, okay. GIMP can’t do everything that Photoshop can do, like using AI to perform generative fill effects. But GIMP is far from useless. It’s very much a competitor worth using, and it actually does offer several benefits that Photoshop can’t (or won’t).
GIMP isn’t just free. It’s completelyfree. Not only do you pay nothing to download and install it, but you can install it on your work machine, your home PC, your kid’s laptop — …