Within this final paper, users will be shown whether there is a significant difference between Gimp and Photoshop. The comparison will be made according to the three video tutorials in which their tools and tecniques are presented and explained in detail. All of these three video tutorials have been produced in the course of creating this final paper and they are available for viewing on the YouTube website. These video tutorials are mainly intended only for the beginner groups of designers who are just getting to know how to design and through these video tutorials, they will learn how to navigate within the user interface, how to manage program options and in what way users will apply program design tools. Through this training session, the user will notice the advantages and disadvantages of using program tools and they will improve all the necessary skills with which they can further independently create their future projects. In addition to comparing and using these two design programs, the final paper will describe some of important characteristics of and Photoshop. Characteristics such as describing their history, who were the main creators and influencers of these design programs and what was their main idea, and in what way these two programs have spreaded globally. Also within this final paper it will be mentioned in what kinds of ways people have physically manipulated images through history. It begins from the creation of the first photograph to its first manipulation, manipulation within politics and journalism, all the way to the new digital way of manipulating photographs. In addition to these negative ways of manpulating, the final paper gives examples of positive ways of manipulating photos such as manipulations by Andy Warhol who had a brilliant design vision wich changed the way of designing in the 20th century, all the way to the modern ways of manipulating such as internet memes.