01-21-2011, 04:22 PM
Well GIMP is a free open source Image editor, it's very powerful but it's a manual-based one. Which mean you will have to do mostly everything by your self. I do recommend this if you don't have the money to buy Photoshop. Now on the other hand, Photoshop is the top-of-the-line Image editing software. CS5 and the Elements versions. Photoshop CS5 has way more features and functionality than GIMP, and the Elements Version of Photoshop. However if you are just a novice user to start off I do recommend you using the Elements version, just to get used to the Interface.