Photoshop Free Alternative for Windows

   Gimp the Best Alternative to Photoshop

In their Words: About GIMP

Introduction to GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It 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.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Features and Capabilities

This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features. You can also have a look at the illustrated features overview.

• Painting
  • Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
  • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
  • Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
  • Supports custom brushes and patterns
• System
  • Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
  • Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
• Advanced Manipulation
  • Full alpha channel support
  • Layers and channels
  • Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
  • Editable text layers
  • Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
  • Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
  • Foreground extraction tool
  • Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
  • Transformable paths, transformable selections.
  • Quickmask to paint a selection.
• Extensible
  • A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
  • Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
  • Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
  • Over 100 plug-ins already available
• Animation
  • Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
  • MNG support
  • Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
• File Handling
  • File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
  • Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
  • SVG path import/export
• Much, much more!.

In My Own Words: 

About Gimp

Introduction

Gimp is   the Best Alternative to Photoshop. Its freely available and open-source for developer to involve in it. You can read-more  about it here if you are a developer . I used it for years and I am still satisfied with its features and its also come in small pack of size so any one can download it from here and can use it for free and its so easy to use  whether you are new or pro its so simple and really powerful therefore its a Best Alternative to Photoshop on Market Today. 

Features

Now We can talk about its features and what are best of its. So now let me tell you something as I said it its open source and free to use. And any one can become a member on their site .

You can easily create plug-ins for Gimp or you create own effect, Themes and lots of scripts. In simple words You can add more features as your demands but let me sure you its fully loaded so You must have to be happy with it and if you think there is something missing on it then you can browse their plug-in gellery for free and easily download many plug-ins and effect for free. Its fully capable to do all thing you usually do on Photoshop.

Some Useful link for you

For Tutorials you can visit here.

For Downloading the best alternative of photoshop you can go to their own Website: Official site of Gimp.

If you want to participate in developing gimp you can go here: For Developer.

For bugs and to patch them you can go here:Bugs Repots.

For books visit to book store: Book Store.

Frequently asked question : FAQ.

For wiki page visit at this:Wiki Page.

Google Plus page: Google+ .

Main site: Gimp.