GIMP Photo Editor 2026 on CD Disc | Premium Professional Image Editing Software Compatible with Windows 11 10 8.1 8 7 Vista XP PC 32 & 64-Bit, Mac & Linux | Lifetime Licence & No Monthly Subscription

I am not the most computer savvy person, but I like to touch up/crop/add text to, etc. my photos . I had always used a fairly simple program called Microsoft Picture It! which I had on disc. That did everything I needed. I just upgraded to a new PC with Windows 10 and found Picture It! to be incompatible and no longer available. I didn't want to spend a fortune for PhotoShop or any of the other programs I researched. Decided to try this. It was easy to load (even for my 65 year old brain) and has more photo processing than I'll ever use. Great deal.

I bought this product to edit photos that range in age 80 years to present day. Black & white, color, Polaroid, faded and just plain old. This was suppose to be the best but it turned out to be the worst. The cd install was one of the worst I have seen. Errors during install and it said could not find the application to install the manual. This is even after I guided it to the correct folder. Apparently, the version installed is not the version the manual guide install was looking for. So I fought with there only to find that it did install? What the? The app opens to a home page that looks like code rather than something a user can navigate through. Very disorganized and displayed in small print across both sides of the screen. Never seen anything like this. It is going to be hard to use and/or navigate through trying decide where to go and do the things you want. Manual guide says it is 800 pages. Can you imagine trying to find something in that? Don't know who said it was the best but to me it is pure chaos. It's free but had to pay to have it shipped. Downloading it is out of the question due to the problems it causes. But I am stuck with it until I can find something useful. Don't go there, you'll be disappointed, like me.

I am a user of Photoshop Elements. My 15 year old mac is showing signs of giving up the ghost, and the new mac won't run my old version of Elements. I have no interest in letting Adobe get their claws into me. I decided to give Gimp a try. I never used much of the capability of Elements, so I had hopes that Gimp would meet my limited needs. I just finished editing a series of mineral photographs with Gimp. In general it does what Elements did. It has some glitches. The tool bar sometimes is in a different location and partly unusable. On occasions the image jogs partly of the work area and won't go back. I can't use the pencil tool after using text. The instructions use different terms than are used on the display. However, the help feature is readily available to set you straight without going back to the instructions. In summary, it does what I need, but annoys the heck out of me at times.

The CD programs work great, no problem loading on my computer and the programs are very efficient and easy to use

I apologize for my limited ability to give this product a more thorough review at this time. However it proved quite able to handle the specific photo editing issue I wanted solved, the ability to do some detail editing on facial features of portrait photos of me and my wife. Beyond that I really haven't had the opportunity to explore all the other very interesting photo editing options that it is capable of. I had read that the software was difficult to learn to manipulate as compared to other photo editing programs, that may be true, but it really didn't take me long at all to find how to do the detail editing I wanted the software for. So we will see. Well worth the purchase price!

I obtained this software because of online advice. Tried to install 3 times on the 3rd time it installed. Inspected the program and determined that it was not useable for my needs (I'm 76 yrs old) and not a professional photo editor and just trying to edit my family photos. I placed the undamaged program disk back in the original package and returned through the UPS system, there were no damages when turned over to UPS. Refund was termed as Damaged and refunded less than 2% of the cost. Then goes back on line as previously viewed for $2.00 less than original price. Buyer Beware.

Has a large choice of tools to enhance and create pictures.

You have to have a damn good memory or a computer geek to use it, I gave up and removed it as I could not use it.