Does GimpShop deliver?

I’ve been looking at a few free graphics editing programs lately. While looking over some listings at freeware sites I stumbled upon GimpShop.

GimpShop promised to change the look of  the Gimp and make it more like Photoshop. That caught my attention. Gimp is a very powerful image editor, but the user interface isn’t the greatest. The UI in Gimp is my biggest complaint and here I’ve found a program that can fix it or so I thought.

I use Paint Shop Pro most of the time, it has a lot of great features and is easy to use. I’ve used Photoshop some, but not much.  I can’t afford the enormous price tag and I’m not going to steal it. I have used lite versions and free trials. I’ve read enough graphics tutorials online, hoping to translate techniques to Paint Shop Pro, that I’m familiar with the program.

Now what did the GimpShop do?

It put a background behind the Gimp windows and changed some labels. Ok, I must have done something wrong. I uninstalled it. I uninstalled my version of Gimp. I reinstalled GimpShop. Same as before. Uninstalled it. I did a search and found a different version, specifically for XP this time, and installed that one. Woah! That looks just like Photoshop doesn’t it?  No, it doesn’t.  It looks like the Gimp with a blank window behind it and some different labels.

I didn’t do much with GimpShop. It’s Gimp, and an older version at that. When I delved deeper I found a few forum and blog conversations talking about how buggy it is. We’re not talking about the bugs found in the version of the Gimp used. These are apparently new bugs introduced by GimpShop. Frozen windows, crashes and the like. Major bugs that make it unusable, or very close to it.

Don’t be fooled. You can’t install GimpShop and magically follow a Photoshop tutorial. It doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t even work.

If you’re looking for a powerful free image editor get the Gimp. 

If you’re looking for a powerful low cost image editor get Paint Shop Pro.

If you want a powerful image editor and cost isn’t a factor get Photoshop.

Don’t bother with GimpShop, at least, not yet. 

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