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In this tutorial we continue to examine the general nature of GIMP specifically focusing on why you might want to use GIMP. One of the reasons why GIMP is as popular as it is is because it's a very powerful program. If GIMP were not as powerful as it is it would not end up being as popular as it is nor would it receive the attention that it has been getting as it has evolved. Now because GIMP is so powerful and it is constantly being improved, GIMP has functionality that rivals many other similar programs, now not just similar open source programs but also other similar closed source programs so if you can think of a few different mainstream applications that allow you to edit images,GIMP has most of the functionality that is in those programs, now however, GIMP may now have the newest features that became available with most recent releases of those commercial programs however over time, GIMP may acquire some of the same functionality. Also, a big reason why you might want to use it is it's free and open source. Now, earlier in another tutorial I mentioned the free aspect had a couple of nuances to it well there's a couple different ways that we can take the word free. We have free as in beer and free as in speech so free as in beer is talking about it's available to you through no cost and free as in speech means that you're able to do whatever you want to do with it meaning that the user is free so you are free to use this software in any way that you want to and also it's available to you free as in no cost so it's a great little thing it's free both in cost and in future action. The open source part of it means that the community has available to the source code and we can alter the program to serve our specific needs, now there is a foundation the free software foundation which is located at this website which will give you a lot more information about the free and open source software movement, now earlier I mentioned that open source software allows people to help develop a program if they're so inclined. Now of course if you're not inclined probably the easiest way to get involved and to support free and open source software is to donate a little bit of money because these organizations do have operational costs that somehow have to be covered and actually are provided by the charitable donation of individuals just like us so please check that out learn as much as possible about free and open source software, and do what you can to contribute back to the community. Another reason why you would want to use GIMP is that once you get past the interface and you get a little more familiar about how it operates it is fairly straightforward and easy to use. You will find that as you become more familiar with these tools you'll be able to just jump in there, do what you need to do and be done with it. There's no real need for you to hunt around for things once you understand how the program operates and of course that's the main purpose of this video tutorial series. Now there's one last point and this is a pretty big one and did I happen to mention that it's free? Yes, totally free of course I did mention that a couple of different times but this is actually one of the main reasons why a lot of people get interested in GIMP to begin with, then they discover it does have a lot of the functionality, it is very powerful, and there are a lot of great philosophical ideas going into GIMP and that concludes our look at the basic nature of GIMP and it should give you an idea as to the philosophical nature of GIMP as well as some of the practical applications that we'll actually be using GIMP for.