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GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. It's suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

The program is fully adapted to Windows Vista and has many functions, which are highly competitive with Adobe Photoshop. But the main thing is that the program is absolutely free: GIMP v2.6 can be downloaded and installed from the developer’s site.

Still there are some bugs in a new version, but all of them are about professional graphic art.

The main capabilities of GIMP are scaling and image framing, layers support, retouching tools, converters for different graphical formats, tools to work with curve layers and channels, etc.

The program also has dozen of installed filters, brushes, tools for deleting defects and many others. The GIMP now supports the capability to enhance the color depth to32 bits and many other new features.

Download GIMP free