GIMP for Mac
Powerful, free image editing application; now a native Mac app.
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GIMP overview
GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.
GIMP has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
What's new in version 3.2.4
- We’ve caught more cases where tools would accidentally rasterize link, text, and vector layers. For instance, the Edit > Fill with... menu options for colors and patterns now work the same as dragging and dropping colors onto non-raster layers. The Crop Tool now behaves more consistently and does not attempt to resize vector layers.
- New contributor anenasa both reported and fixed an issue with the Text Outline feature being cut off with vertical oriented text.
- One for the record books - Jehan fixed a bug in our XCF code that’s existed since 1999! He’s also added code to correctly load XCFs made with and without this bug, as backwards compatibility with XCF project files is very important to us.
- Sometimes a bug fix can create other, unrelated bugs. A fix we made in GIMP 3.2.2 caused some text layers to become uneditable after reloading them from an XCF file. Jehan found and fixed the new bug, so you should be able to edit both XCFs created in 3.2.2 and new ones.
- Speaking of text, Gabriele Barbe has fixed an issue where rotating the canvas rather than the image could cause the on-canvas text editor to appear in the wrong place when moved.
- New contributor balooii fixed a crash that could occur when selecting a non-existant filter tag in a plug-in like GFig.
Full list of changes available here
GIMP for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.2.4
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Mar 22, 2024
Version: 2.10.36
3-22-24, I downloaded it and opened it up, and the interface has very little that is intelligible, so weird. I am deleting it right away.
Mar 31, 2022
Version: 2.10.30
I like that GIMP has all of the features of Photoshop but without the need to subscribe to Adobe's Creative Suite. It's not as good as photoshop but it gets the job done.
Gimp and a XP-Pen Deco Fun drawing tablet is great on Mac OS!
Dec 12, 2021
Version: 2.10.28
Quite simply, this is horrible. Way too complex. Software designed by a committee.
May 7, 2021
Version: 2.10.22
This app brings me back to 2013 when I did my first steps in photo editing. Glad I found it again, will definitely give it a try years later although it may be a brought ride, judging from comments
