GIMP For Windows, The Absolutely FREE Photo Editing Software

GIMP for Windows is a photo editing software that is perfect for beginners. First and foremost the absolute most eye catching quality in this program is its price. It is, everybody's favourite word, FREE. The best free photo editing software out there, GIMP combines all the basic features that you would want in a photo editing software. Red Eye Reduction, black and white, sepia, sun burst etc. Hundreds upon hundreds of features all piled into a no strings attached free software. GIMP has approximately 150 standard effects and filters, including Drop Shadow, Blur, Motion blur and Noise.

The GIMP's manipulation tools can be accessed via the toolbox, menu paths, and dialog boxes (which are also known as palettes). They include filters and brushes, as well as transformation, selection, layer and masking tools. For example, the GIMP comes with 48 standard brushes, plus facilities to create new ones. Brushes (and brush tools) can be used in hard-edged, soft-edged, or eraser modes, be applied at different opacities, or used with different modes for composition.

GIMP also has a palette with RGB (color model red, green, blue), HSV(Hue, Saturation, Value), colour wheel, CMYK (short for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key or Black), and mixing modes, plus tools to pick colours from the image with various averaging options. There is support for hexadecimal colour codes (as used in HTML). While 'CMYK' is offered in the Palette, GIMP, by default, works only in RGB, grayscale and index color modes.

GIMP supports gradients, which integrate into its other tools (such as brushes and fills) to shade image areas with automated color blending. It includes a variety of built-in gradients, and as with the brushes, also allows the user to customize and create their own gradient fills.