The original purpose for GIMPshop is to make The GIMP more accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. If you’ve never used Photoshop before, you may not appreciate it but the GIMPshop hack really makes a difference.

What the program does is rename and reorganize GIMP’s tools, options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions. Many of the menu options and even whole menus were recreated to faithfully reproduce a Photoshop-like experience. After running GIMPshop you’ll find that Photoshop and the GIMP are strikingly similar. Longtime Photoshop users should feel very comfortable using GIMPshop.

GIMPshop is by no means a one-to-one copy of Photoshop and you may find some menu items that are not in perfect order. But GIMPshop’s pretty close, and it does the job pretty well.