Gimpshop

If one of your passions is editing photographs, then you’re probably looking for a proper program to do the job. GIMPShop is an app that includes advanced tools presented in a friendly way.

GIMPShop is an open source program that’s based on the GIMP image editor. However, the app looks more like Photoshop, both visually and in regards of terminology and structure. The software aims to build a bridge between the GIMP and Photoshop users and make the app easy to understand and use by the latter.

The software comes with plenty of tools that can aid you in editing your photographs, such as selection tools (rectangular, elliptical, hand drawn or continuous). Also, you can select entire regions by color or certain shapes.

GIMPShop supports layers, which gives users more flexibility when editing images. Thus, you can make modifications, adjust transparency, add colors and effects through layers. In this manner, if you change your mind, you don’t have to cancel numerous other actions, but only delete a certain layer.

The software also supports brushes, gradients and various patterns, which can be applied to the images. Effects are also included. You can apply various types of blur, color, noise and shadow, as well as glass and light effects.

Furthermore, you can choose the blending modes for all the objects you add to a picture, including the layers. So, you can choose the dissolve, multiply, screen, overlay, burn, darken or lighten modes, just to name a few.

The fact of the matter is that GIMPShop is a program that works well and gives users a large palette of options to edit images. While the software comes with a user-friendly interface, it was not designed with inexperienced users in mind. Most features are quite advanced and require some training.