Popular image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop are increasingly merging their offline products with cloud-based solutions and pushing users into recurring subscriptions. While this can provide convenience, this push towards the cloud results in the companies providing these tools collecting more information on their users, eroding users’ ownership of their files, and preventing users from fully owning the software that they rely on.
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a long-standing, private, free and open-source (FOSS) alternative to Photoshop and other image editors that provides many of the core image editing features users require, gives users full ownership of their files, and doesn’t collect any user data or personal information.
