the digital iris: Why I Love GIMP Photo Editing Tool

As you may know, I love to use GIMP to edit my photos. GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Tool. I find it clear and user friendly, but mostly I enjoy playing around with the different scripts which you can employ to change the look of your pictures - essentially the cheat's way to achieving effects that you would otherwise have to spend a lot of time layering up to get what you want. New scripts are often uploaded to the site, so there's always something different to try.

The other thing I like a lot is that GIMP has a nifty little portable app that you can download to a USB and use on whichever computer you're working on - no need to clog up your Dad's, boyfriend's, work computer with the full GIMP programme - so it keeps you in other people's good books! The icing on the cake is that it's free to download - what's not to like really?

Here's a quick showcase of some of my favourite scripts - if there are others which you particularly enjoy using, I'd be interested to hear about them.