GIMP’s missing Text menu is a hint that its Text capability, while very competent, is not as feature-rich as Photoshop’s. Unfortunately, some of the icons, like the one for the crop tool shown, are different from the ones used by Photoshop, so finding your favorite may take some hunting. It also provides a window into some of the very powerful and extensible scripted image transforms that GIMP allows. The Tools menu pulls together a mixed bag of the same tools that are found in the Toolbox, plus some tools Adobe puts in the Image menu, like Crop. The Colors and Tools menus are unique to GIMP, with Colors pulling together operations that affect image content, that are usually found under the Image > Adjustments menu in Photoshop. Menus also closely parallel Photoshop’s, with File, Edit, Select, View, Image, Filters, and Help serving the same functions - although in a slightly different order. Individual tabs can be torn off (although it requires using a command on the palette menu instead of Adobe’s more intuitive action), so you can tweak GIMP UI just about as much as you can Photoshop’s. Familiar panels for Layers, Brushes, Tools, Paths, and plenty of others are available. When you first load GIMP 2.8, you might be forgiven for thinking that you’d fired up an alternate UI for Photoshop. First impressions fromt Photoshop veteran
