The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
My friend, Felix Leong introduces me this great software, GIMP. It is an open source image editing software which works like Adobe Photoshop or CorelDraw. It can run on multiple platform: Unix, Windows and Mac OSX.
The software looks sophisticated and comes with advanced manipulation like full alpha channel support, layers and channels, multiple undo/redo (a very important feature), editable text layers, transformation tools and etc. Will give it a try and might become my default tools in future for creating images for my websites.
You can download the free software at the following link:
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Below are some of the screenshots of GIMP running different operating systems:
GIMP for Unix
GIMP for Linux
GIMP for Windows
GIMP for Mac OSX
Give it a try! :) Probably the only difference between it and Photoshop is that Photoshop has those professional stuff that you don’t need 97% of the time (unless you are in a printing business or extremely serious digital arts).