GIMP 2.8 Review: Who needs Photoshop?

There have been a lot of major changes made to the way GIMP works, and the developers have been keen to promote the new single window mode especially. It’s been a feature requested by the community for a long time, being able to integrate the dockable toolbars into the main GIMP window. While the floating windows were created originally to emulate the look of Photoshop, they never really worked the same way, and there was plenty of times when we just lost the bars as they suddenly moved off screen during start up. The new, completely optional, mode smartly places the tool bars in the main window, allowing you to drag them around and modify completely as you see fit, with multiple columns and different tools. It works great once you get used to the little quirks.

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• GIMP Tricks: Chocolate bar with GIMP(Jul 10, 2007)
• GIMP review(Mar 15, 2012)
• New Gimp Releases(Mar 30, 1999)
• Linux Productivity Magazine: Gimp(Dec 16, 2003)
• Bring Out the GIMP Part 1: GIMP Basics(Jul 04, 2007)
• In Gimp We Trust(Oct 02, 2008)
• Graffiti Tutorial (Gimp Howto)(Jul 28, 2009)
• Zoom Blur Effect in GIMP(Sep 07, 2010)
• Add brushes to The GIMP(Oct 04, 2010)
• Fade Out Images with GIMP(Aug 27, 2009)
• Five Interesting GIMP Filters(Oct 31, 2009)