Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

[Clint Tinsley]

I don't pretend to be a Gimp expert but I do know a few and they came from Photoshop.  They tend to put the Gimp on equal footing with PS. There are differences, but like Linux, there are different ways of accomplishing the same task, all involve some learning.  And you can't beat the price of the Gimp and that it is open source which is what enables folks like Scott Moschella's to do what he did in creating GimpShop. And in the opens source spirit, he releases the source so others can participate in its development.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Imre Tuske" 
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" 
Subject: Re: Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:12:51 +0100

Unfortunately that doesn't help Gimp being any better than about Photoshop 4.0 :/ It's still Gimp. Just a few examples:

- in Photoshop you don't have to care about layer boundaries (it automatically extends if needed, etc), in Gimp you do. annoying annoying annoying.
- I never really grasped the idea of "floating selection", except that it's useless; fortunately it was removed long ago (from PS, not from Gimp).
- In PS, font layers can be edited WYSIWYG-style, and can be transformed without converting it to bitmap first (basically it's like a vector layer);

Btw, Photoshop also had/has it's stupidities; they needed 8 versions to more or less sort them out.

Actually, Gimp wouldn't need any major surgery, just some small-but-practical improvements (like the above) to be a fully competent competent :) Unfortunately just rearranging the menu layout (AFAIK Gimpshop is only that) is not enough.


imre



On 12/23/05, Matt Egger <matt.egger at gmail.com> wrote:
FYI


http://www.gimpshop.net/


On 12/22/05, Clint Tinsley <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> Somebody has done this already ... Would have to search for it. 
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sasha Tsykin" <stsykin at gmail.com>
> To: imre.tuske at gmail.com , ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:35:51 +1100
>
> >
> > Hey all, I don't know if you've heard but somebody is making a gui 
> > for the GIMP meant to be as close a match for photoshop as
> > possible. Just my two cents.
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> > -- ubuntu-users mailing list
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> > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
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