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There is a number of reasons why this program is used:

  • Firstly it's free under the GNU license.
  • Secondly, it's a powerful package which rivals expensive image manipulation packages.
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Photoshop and GIMP are used for image manipulation, which is basically editing/creating images and photos.

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