Gimp

Today, I decided to download GIMP and see what everyone has been talking about. I am very familiar with Photoshop and as far love the program, however as seeing as the laptop is the only computer that is available to me, I have opted to get GIMP and look at the comparision to Photoshop. I will post and update with my ratings on 3 subjects.
The 3 areas of rating will be:

1. A Rating for Ease of Install and Initial Setup
2. A Rating for Overall program design in terms of layout of tools (easy to difficult)
3. A Rating for Amount of tools available for photo manipulation

For this test I will create a proper banner for packetstealer