I have used GIMP in the past but have now become a consistent Photoshop user. I user Adobe programs for all sorts of things, mostly because I do a ton of photography and retouching, digital illustration, lineart, logo design, and some print design. One huge thing for me is that Photoshop offers swatches for Pantone colors, which are pretty standardized in print especially. Photoshop has a wonderful streamlined interface, the ability to customize interfaces depending on your current tasks, and offers very very powerful functionality for heavy users such as myself.
However, Gimp as an open-source free program is awesome, don't get me wrong. GIMP takes up way less space than Photoshop does and for someone who doesn't use a lot of the really specialized tools in Photoshop, it's not even necessary to eat up so much space and processing power. GIMP is free and if one doesn't NEED all the features Photoshop provides, it is an excellent option with a vast amount of tools I haven't seen in any other free image editing software out there. Unless one has worked their way up to some of the more complicated and powerful features Photoshop has to offer, I would say GIMP is outstanding alternative for anyone needing an image editing program.
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