<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/22/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Tansom</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:paul@aptanet.com" target="_blank">paul@aptanet.com</a>> wrote:</span> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">** Jai Harrison <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jai@jaiharrison.com" target="_blank">jai@jaiharrison.com</a>> [2008-02-20 23:08]:<br> > I disagree. The GIMP has a difficult user interface. Photoshop was<br>> extremely easy to learn to use where as I've never managed to get<br>> anywhere with GIMP. The way it is now whenever I need a photo edited<br> > or an image created/modified I ask a Windows/Photoshop user to do the<br>> task for me - that's definitely not the intended result.<br>** end quote [Jai Harrison]<br><br>Personally I've always been quite happy with GIMP. When I first started<br> using it there was a small culture shock from not having a menu bar<br>across the top, but it took a matter of minutes to get used to that. I'm<br>no power user though.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>I think Jai is being extremely harsh... there are positives and negatives about the way that GIMP presents itself, but on aggregate (for me at least) it makes very little difference... if anything, I'd say that having used it for several years now I probably prefer the GIMP presentation to that of, say, Photoshop as it empowers me to put each window/image/toolbox etc. where I want it rather than where the software says I must.</div> <div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The combination of price tag and an unwillingness to use pirated<br>software mean I've never even seen Photoshop, and it doesn't even figure<br> in my top 100 apps I'd like to see ported to Linux :) I've no idea how<br>representative Elements is of the Photoshop UI (likely not at all), but<br>I'm not a big fan of that from using it on my parents PC.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>There is a customised version of GIMP called "Gimpshop" which, I am told, brings the product much closer to the Photoshop look/feel... the website implies that in terms of the multiple windows vs. single windows debate that is resolved for only Windows users (deweirdify or something), so it might be worth Jai considering running Gimpshop under wine, perhaps?</div> <div><br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Perhaps I'm just atypical when it comes to software. So many people<br>consider Dreamweaver the ultimate web development package, but from what<br> little I've seen of it I'd actively avoid it, and I've not been<br>enthusiastic about what little experience I've had of Contribute.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>I was trying to help somebody design a website on Wednesday, who was using Dreamweaver, and I must admit it brought back nightmares and reinforced my view that the best "WYSIWYG" for web development is a plain tried and tested text editor (vi, emacs or whatever) used in combinatin with a couple of open browsers... ;-)</div> <div> </div> <div>Sean</div>