For those who are used to Photoshop, Gimp is a good, but secondary type of tool. While Gimp is very strong, it does lack some core features which make it a little more difficult to use.

However several people have worked on adding plug-ins and skins to make Gimp more like Photoshop. Smashing Magazine has a list of  “tweaks”  to Make Gimp Replace Photoshop.

Definitely worth checking out if Paint.Net doesn’t do everything you need it to, and Gimp isn’t quite what you were looking for, but Photoshop is a little too much.

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GIMP is another free image editing software tool. It is more advanced than Paint.Net, if you need the added funcationality, and it supports linux as well as Mac OS X in addition to the standard Windows.

GIMP, is a full featured image editing application, supporting layers, plug-ins, as well as standard features for editing your images. Standard editing tools include perspective fixing, wide range of image reading and writing, photo editing, and more.  So it is full of strength.

Unfortunately, it is not as easy to use as some other tools. However, some people have added plugins and skins to make it easier to use.  Well look at those shortly.

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