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Hey guys, I just started playing with The Gimp. I've played around a little bit with Photoshop but I don't know alot about it, or graphic design in general, and don't plan on being a graphic designer or anything - just for fun.
Out of curiousity, what is it you guys like about The Gimp? How does it compare to Photoshop? (besides the fact that it's GNU and photshop isn't.) In my first linux book, Oreilly's "Running Linux", it mentioned that in some ways it's "better". Of course, I'm going to use The Gimp no matter what, just because I like my Linux box, but I'm just curious.
Out of curiousity, what is it you guys like about The Gimp? How does it compare to Photoshop? (besides the fact that it's GNU and photshop isn't.) In my first linux book, Oreilly's "Running Linux", it mentioned that in some ways it's "better". Of course, I'm going to use The Gimp no matter what, just because I like my Linux box, but I'm just curious.
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Re: What aspect
Sat, May 15, 2004 - 8:44 AMIt's free. Although I bought photoshop, if I reccomend it to a friend, I have them install the GIMP
It's free-floating gazillion-little-windows interface drives me bonkers, though. I'M WORKING ON A PICTURE I don't WANT distracting background details....
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Re: What aspect
Mon, May 17, 2004 - 12:36 PMGIMP works and is free. At that price, there is nothing else that compares. It certainly lacks a lot of UI polish, however.
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Re: What aspect
Sun, November 21, 2004 - 9:15 PMMost misssed aspects: Color management (as in ColorSync) and CMYK. They'll probably be added soon, though. -
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Re: What aspect
Mon, November 22, 2004 - 12:32 AMCMYK support is currently an experimental plug-in. Google brings up
www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/sepa...html.
Lately I've been using Gimp to create screenshots for documentation purposes, and I like to schmear stuff around to create wallpaper. I like the GTK2 interface, especially the dynamic key-binding. All around, for my personal use, the Gimp is superior for what I want to do.
I'm not as well versed in photoshop to make a comparison, other than for mass production work photoshop is still the easiest for an entry-level person to wrap their head around in our chop and crop department, although bringing the Gimp into production would save us a significant amount of money.
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