Whilst it is great as a free photo editing platform, you can also use it for freehand sketching, painting and many more artistic tasks. GIMP is mainly used by people who want to edit their photos, such as cropping and resizing – perhaps adding some text – but there is more to GIMP than that. It is available for most operating systems including Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and others. It supports all major graphic file types including raster, vector, animation, video, audio, and any other type of media.

You can also use it to edit images in various formats like JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, PSD, EPS, PDF, SVG, PICT, PCX, CGM, RAS, WMF, EMF, XCF, Targa, AI, AVI, MPEG, MOV, MP4, MNG, SWF, WEBM, FLI, and so on. It has many features such as layers, selection tools, color adjustment etc. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful tool for photo manipulation. In this article we shall look at them both to determine which is the best one for your artistic needs. The main difference between the two is that Inkscape is designed specifically for creating vector graphics while GIMP is more of an image editing program. Both are open source software and can be used on Linux, Windows or Mac OS X.

Inkscape vs gimp tablet drawing