Gimp Information

Yes, under terms of the General Public License this is perfectly legal, provided that the seller also gave you the source code of GIMP and any modifications he/she introduced. Are you trying to develop a Photoshop killer app? No. Most generic image editors look like Photoshop simply because Adobe's application was among the first image editors as we know them now, so developers tend to stick to what people know - in general terms. What we aim to do is to create a high-end image manipulation application that is free to use and modify by everyone, ever. Feature-wise, the proposed "high-end" status does automatically put GIMP into direct comparison against Photoshop, but we don't think about competition much. We have too many ideas of our own to implement, and too many things to improve before the notion of competition begins to make the slightest sense. We do, however, acknowledge the fact that people will treat GIMP as Photoshop replacement no matter what we tell them, and that's all right with us. You own this software, it's up to you to decide how you make use of it. Why can't you just copy Adobe Photoshop to make GIMP usable? In the past, the development in the project was somewhat erratic with regards to taking usability into consideration, which is rather typical for free software projects, but inexcusable for a high-end image editor that GIMP aims to become. Between 2006 and 2013, we worked with Peter Sikking of Man+Machine Works, a professional usability architect, who helped us shape the project vision for GIMP, interviews professional users to better understand their workflows and demands, and wrote functional specifications for various GIMP features. This collaboration resulted in major improvements of GIMP's usability, in particular: the rectangular-based selection/cropping tools, the unified free/polyline selection tool, the single-window mode, the upcoming unified transformation tool etc. While working on functional specifications, Peter researched how various features are implemented in applications with a partially matching feature set (such as Adobe Photoshop), but the final design was made to help actual users complete their tasks as fast as possible. This is exactly the kind of approach to designing interfaces that we consider to be superior to merely copying user interaction decisions. I don't like the name GIMP. Will you change it? No. We've discussed this numerous times, and we don't think this is really all that necessary. We understand that some people feel offended by the colloquial meaning of the name GIMP, but we cannot please everybody and should not attempt to do so.