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Add to SafariWhen comparing GIMP vs Designcap, the Slant community recommends Designcap for most people. In the question“What are the best photoshop alternative for book cover creation?” Designcap is ranked 3rd while GIMP is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Designcap is:
It offers hundreds of professionally designed templates for posters and flyers, covering various occasions and events. It also offers a sea of stock photos, clipart images, shapes, fonts, and backgrounds.
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Pros
Pro Free, open source and cross-platform
GIMP is completely free and open source, meaning you can use GIMP and all of its features without spending a penny. This makes it an excellent case for artists or designers who may not have the budget to spend over 700 USD on Photoshop. It is also available for free on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It's licensed under GPL with source code available here.
Pro Powerful
GIMP is the most feature rich free image editing tool. It has most image manipulation and workflow tools that you would expect from an image editing software and what it lacks it makes up with plugins.
Pro Content-aware tools with a plugin
There's a content-aware fill plugin available for GIMP.
Pro Modular & single-window interface options
By default GIMP splits out each window, but you can check to use the one screen mode in options if you prefer.
Pro Lightweight
Compared to to other photo editing software, GIMP is very light weight. In addition it isn't very resource-intensive, meaning you can put it on a flash drive and have it with you to load up on just about any computer.
Pro Beginner-friendly
Gimp has less features than programs like Photoshop, but for a beginner, or someone not needing complicated options, Gimp is the perfect choice. It allows you to quickly do basic photo manipulation so you can easily get the product you need without having to worry about complicated features getting in the way.
Pro Full channel support
Pro Tons of resources
It offers hundreds of professionally designed templates for posters and flyers, covering various occasions and events. It also offers a sea of stock photos, clipart images, shapes, fonts, and backgrounds.
Pro User-friendly interface
DesignCap has a clean and straightforward interface that everyone can easily control it without any guidance.
Pro Flexible editing tools
All the editing tools can be easily used to resize, position, rotation, change text font, color, effect, alignment, apply specific background, manage layers, etc.
Pro Able to save project
It enables users to save theirs works as project files for further editing.
Cons
Con Unintuitive interface
GIMP doesn't embrace OS X application design, thus Mac users might have a hard time wrapping their heads around GIMP's interface.
Con Less features than other programs
Being a free program, it shouldn't be surprising that it has limited features. For those needing more advanced features for something more professional, GIMP just isn't for you.
Con Lacks adjustment layers
Adjustment layers offer a non-destructive way of combining different photo manipulations. Without adjustment layers the only way to see changes is by irreversibly editing the image.
They are promised in future updates.
Con Poor performance
Con No drawing tools
Canva has at least basic drawing tools.
Con Unable to save the work online
Unable to save posters online under users' accounts.
