GIMP
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 2.10.38
Updated on May 08 2024
New features and improvements
- Improved support for tablets on Windows — Before this release, GIMP only supported connecting tablets on Windows through WinTab drivers rather than the newer Windows Ink drivers. Because of this, we received a number of reports about tablets having issues with unresponsive buttons, incorrect pressure sensitivity, lagging brush movement, and mid-stroke position changes. These problems were due to a limitation of GTK2, as support for Windows Ink was implemented in GTK3 by long-time contributor Luca Bacci. For this release, Luca was gracious enough to backport this support to GTK2. You can now switch between WinTab and Windows Ink drivers (if supported by your computer) in the Preferences dialog under the Input Device settings.
- Backports of other GTK3 features — Luca also contributed a number of other features from GTK3 to GTK2. Some of the backported improvements include updating the size of the Print Dialog so buttons are not cut off, fixing issues with pop-up dialogs appearing behind the previous ones, and several fixes to keyboard input. These improvements are primarily for Windows and are already included in the 2.99 development release. However, we are very happy that these quality of life improvements are now available in this stable release of GIMP 2.10!
Bugfixes
- Recent crashes — Two commonly reported crashes have now been corrected. A change in GLib 2.80 exposed a bug in our closing process and caused a crash on exit. Luca Bacci once again devised a fix for both 2.10.38 and the upcoming 3.0 release candidate. Another crash that some users encountered when making very small selections was also fixed.
Other smaller fixes, including
- Indexed PNGs with transparency are now exported with the correct colors
- Anders Jonsson fixed the input ranges for several filters such as Waves and Distort
- The titlebar customization field now supports UTF-8 characters
- Existing image comments no longer “leak” into newly created images
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App requirements
- Intel 64
- macOS 10.13 or later
- Version for Apple Silicon
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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 11 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
Sep 2 2020
Version: 2.10.14
This is the worst programm i've ever used in my life.
Never will I recommend this idiotic piece of shit to anyone in this universe.
Please remove this pile of garbage from the internet!
Aug 21 2020
Version: 2.10.14
just get photoshop. this absolutely sucks.
Apr 27 2020
Version: 2.10.14
This review is for 2. 10. 14. This photo editor is like a person with a darker complicated personality. You can figure out how to interact with them but you never know if they will go along with what you. want to do. This program is always doing weird and odd sh*t. Slow and always complaining and whining about having to do basic crap like crop and save a file. It continually pops up messages about how it can't save or it can't do a requested job. It lies about its pixels. To work this program is like being in a relationship with a bipolar person.
Mar 27 2020
Version: 2.10.14
Tremendous problems opening Raw images created by Sony Cameras.
Mar 5 2020
Version: 2.10.18
Note that 2.10.18 is not yet available for download. The link here takes you to 2.10.14.
Jan 22 2020
Version: 2.10.14
I have just downloaded The Gimp. I have not had time to try it yet, but I do have project that I think that will do the job well. I have a photo of a very close relative that died 32 years ago. This photo was the last photo ever taken of him. Unfortunately, the photo was left on a windowsill and the sun has bleached out much of the colour. I do have other photos of him from which I can get an accurate colour match of his skin tone. I’ll keep you informed on the progress I make. Any tips or ideas please let me know.
Jan 2 2020
Version: 2.10.14
I have been sick and haven’t had much chance too tack a good look at it. I have lots of raw photos to look at . Ty
Nov 19 2019
Version: 2.10.14
New at this...what version of GIMP for Mac El Capitain? How do I get BIMP plugins to work for watermarks & batch manipulation?
Nov 3 2019
Version: 2.10.14
Digital Artist? Good, get this app you will love it!
Jul 19 2019
Version: 2.10.12
My image editor of choice for over five years. It doesn't get much better for free.
Jun 25 2019
Version: 2.10.12
Found this great site with excellent tutorials and tips on using GIMP and Photoshop.
https://howtogimp.com/
I like GIMP, but I wouldn't call it 'intuitive', especially for newcomers. This site helped me a lot. I use GraphicConverter 90% of the time, GIMP when I have to, like when sharing with other GIMP for Windows users, or need to load Photoshop files.
Jun 25 2019
Version: 2.10.12
MACUPDATE: The link to the developer on this page is mislabeled, it reads 'GIMP On OS X'. The link is correct. The label should read 'GIMP.ORG'. "GIMP On OS X' was a separate project of GIMP, headed by an independent developer with the avatar 'Lisanet', who created custom builds of GIMP from the official gimp.org release. These custom GIMP On OS X builds had additional features and some mods in the menu structure to make easier for users who used Photoshop.
The GIMP On OS X project is deprecated, and hasn't been updated since Jan 2017.
This label is left over from the time when Macupdate actually had two landing pages for GIMP, one for the GIMP.org build and one for the builds by 'lisanet' for the GIMP On OS X project.
Here's the link to the deprecated project to validate what I'm saying:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/
it even says on there 'Superseded by the official Gimp release: http://www.gimp.org'
Jun 19 2019
Version: 2.10.12
2.10.12 on Mojave quits upon launch (without even a startup banner window). I tried both the torrent download and the direct download with the same results. My copy of 2.10.10 still works fine
Jun 17 2019
Version: 2.10.12
Might the System Requirements be wrong? Shouldn't they be from OS X 10 . 10 and higher?. Because OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) doesn't accept this one.
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