GIMP
GIMP is a free raster graphics editor for macOS that helps you retouch photos, create artwork, and prepare images for web or print.
What is GIMP?
GIMP is a raster graphics editor for macOS used for photo retouching, image composition, digital painting, and general image authoring. It is suited to photographers, designers, illustrators, and hobbyists who need detailed control over layers, selections, filters, and color adjustments. GIMP 3 adds modern editing improvements, including non-destructive handling for many commonly used filters, along with broad support for exchanging files with other creative apps. Users often rely on it to clean up photos, design graphics, create web assets, edit textures, and export images in multiple formats. The app also supports customization through plugins and workflow adjustments, which makes it useful for both simple edits and more advanced creative work.
Key features
- Retouch photos with selections, masks, brushes, and color adjustment tools
- Create layered graphics, composites, and digital artwork
- Apply many filters non-destructively and revisit edits later
- Import and export a wide range of image file formats
- Customize the workspace and extend the app with plugins
- Prepare graphics for web, print, and creative design workflows
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
GIMP is legitimate image-editing software. Access to your files is consistent with its purpose because it needs to open, edit, and save images and project assets. Use normal care when opening untrusted image files or installing third-party plugins, since plugins and externally sourced files can affect stability or security.
Recommendation: Keep GIMP if you use it for photo editing, digital art, or graphics work on your Mac. If you no longer use it, removing the app is usually fine, but you may also want to review any saved projects, custom brushes, plugins, and personal settings you want to keep first.
Common paths
/Applications/GIMP.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/org.gimp.gimp-3.0
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/GIMP
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/org.gimp.gimp-3.0.plist
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