Opens Source Review Part 3: Gimp

So unfortunately my streak of cleverly named blog posts have come to an end with my choosing of the GIMP image editing software. It is a Photoshop alternative and who doesn't need a little Photoshop in their lives without having to spend Photoshop money? I certainly can see the value in using it as I do a lot of DIY and crafting projects and I like being able to manipulate an image to get it to be exactly what I need for a project.
Before I started using it, I did watch a tutorial on YouTube first just so that I wouldn't be wasting time trying to figure out what all the buttons do (which is what turned me off from Photoshop to begin with).
The tutorials didn't really give me all that I needed in terms of assistance in using the program...I really had to do a lot of playing around with it which for me is kind of frustrating but...it's free so I guess I won't complaint too loudly about it.

So I went to work with it, selecting an image that I wanted to edit...and I'm absolutely too frustrated with it to actually accomplish what I set out to do...pretty much the exact same way I felt about Photoshop. It had a lot of the same types of tools and was just as confusing...even with the tutorials playing in the background...with all that said, I wanted to have a screen shot of my little text run with Gimp but I was the intellectual gimp because I couldn't do what I wanted to do...I'm going to relax my mind and maybe I'll come back to it later this week because although I didn't really get the hang of it on the first try, I can see the value in having an image editing program that you didn't have to spend an arm and a leg for.
If you are a Gimp wiz or know something I don't, I totally welcome all comments below! :)