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- praveenmarkandu, on 07/13/2008, -16/+182some of them look amateurish
- GothAlice, on 07/13/2008, -7/+100Scratch that. Many of them do.
- doctorinfierno, on 07/13/2008, -29/+122Nice pics but I don't know... even though I think free software is awesome, naming something "Gimp" doesn't give me as much confidence in the product, well I can see that you can do some great stuff with it, but really, "Gimp"? Anyone?
- tedrock, on 07/13/2008, -11/+91If these are the best I'd hate to see the worse.
- Murdats, on 07/13/2008, -12/+75photoshopped, ignoring the name of the software, is quite a good name for the fixing/editing or 'shopping' of 'photo's
gimped sounds like some odd sexual thing. - cdigioia, on 07/13/2008, -2/+46The acronym makes sense - choosing that acronym is retarded if one wants to increase adoption.
- iashraf, on 07/13/2008, -17/+55GNU Image Manipulation Program = GIMP
Makes sense to me. - jwolcott, on 07/13/2008, -1/+39OSS developers are great programmers but poor marketers in general, with the FF team being a notable exception.
Gimp is a horrible naming choice and we know what it stands for but I think this is a case of fitting a name to an acronym rather than the other way around. - MadOtaku, on 07/13/2008, -2/+36It's kinda funny because it's the GNU Image Manipulation Program, but it would probably worry the typical potential user. I think a better name would be 'Breeze' or something like that. Trying to make it sound easy instead of worthless.
- MadOtaku, on 07/13/2008, -7/+29Dumbass, the point of the article isn't that the images are cool; the point is that such cool images were done using GIMP instead of Photoshop. Think of it as an advertisement for a great opensource app.
I may sound like a GIMP fanboy, but I'm really not. It's a nice app but I don't require image manipulation very often, so I only launch it roughly once per month. - miga, on 07/13/2008, -1/+23What does this have to do with GIMP? GIMP is a tool. To make pictures like this you just need passion/skill/time. You can do that with (almost) every graphic tool
- tommyjames, on 07/13/2008, -4/+24its free...
but i still use photoshop. Gimp just doesnt do it for me. - Kral, on 07/13/2008, -3/+23BitchX and *****. Might I interest you in some software good sir?
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+22Huh. It doesn't make sense in light of the fact that 'gimp' is already a pejorative term for someone with a physical disability, does it?
- serenityflexed, on 07/13/2008, -0/+19+1
"Breeze" -- i love it! - pault107, on 07/13/2008, -0/+16Ourlooked? That's a new one on me.
- bj00rn, on 07/13/2008, -6/+21Who the hell cares what the graphical editor is?? A good pic is a good pic regardless. I feel I have to bury this story because the angle is annoying me.
Anyway, as a photographer I've of course tried Gimp (To try to a free alternative to the costly Photoshop licence) many times (Every new version), but so far it has not been for me at all. It feels very cumbersome to try to learn a new tool from scratch (Even though it is basically the same, it is still NOT the same...). I'm sure Gimp is capable enough, but it just doesn't feel as intuitive as Photoshop for me. After years of working with Photoshop my brain is efficiently wired to use Photoshop and its tools without having to think, I only think about what I want to achieve and then I do it. With Gimp I have to constantly think about the interface, the tools, and how to combine them to achieve my goal. I just don't have time for that..
For people starting out learning have to edit I'm sure it'll be easier though, and I DO wish Gimp well, because we need a cheaper alternative to Photoshop (Which is WAY to expensive).
Oh, and the name sucks... The software needs to be rebranded, seriously. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -10/+25Seriously, if 1, 10, 19, 20, and 21 are part of the 'top 25 GIMPed images', it only reinforces my preference for Photoshop.
I mean - "Aw, did someone learn to use layer masks and the clone tool? Huh? Yes! Yes, someone did! Who's a good GIMP? Are you a good GIMP? Yes you are! Yes you are!" - LittleDas, on 07/13/2008, -1/+16Buried because jesus christ, these can't be the best 25 GIMP produced images...
- smotpoker, on 07/13/2008, -2/+17Interestingly, I thought pretty much the same thing for at least a year about 'google' when it first started getting popular. As a direct result, I wasted countless hours sifting through search results on altavista, excite and yahoo because I refused to use a product with such a dumb name.
If nothing else, unconventional naming should teach us all not to dismiss everything on face/cosmetic value. There are plenty of other applications, concepts, shows, movies, books, bands, etc where I have done the exact same thing to some degree. Your point may be true to some degree but in believing it so strongly (and arguing it while expecting others to feel the same) you help perpetuate such superficial behaviors.
Besides, the GIMP probably (for a while at least) helped ensure that primarily only the most objective and smart people gave it a shot and probably saved them the burden of a bunch of clueless morons antagonizing them with complaints and support requests during early phases of development :P - leftover, on 07/13/2008, -3/+18Agreed. Some oss projects don't choose great names, but I love them anyway :)
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+13Well, there you go... The purpose of the article.
- MadOtaku, on 07/13/2008, -1/+14I'm always bothered by GIMP fanboys that will burry comments like yours. They are unable to accept that Photoshop is better than GIMP for certain things (it really is). GIMP is good, but Photoshop is better in many ways; I think the gap is closing, there's still catching up to do. That said, for the typical person, GIMP will do everything you need and Photoshop is overkill.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+13Beautifully
Retouch and
Enjoy
Exposures
Zenfully
Engineered - Llanowar, on 07/13/2008, -2/+15Exactly what I was thinking. THe best of those are of mediocre standard.
I'm quite sure plenty on digg here can put something better together. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+13 As someone who uses Gimp quite alot, they look like Kindergarden grade material.
- CCmachined, on 07/13/2008, -3/+15this pictures aren't anywhere near the "best" that the Gnu Image Manipulation Program can create. buried (innacurate). !
- iashraf, on 07/13/2008, -0/+12It's FREE
- blackjack75, on 07/13/2008, -1/+13The shadows are all wrong. Obviously photosh... err nothing.
- mynameistux, on 07/13/2008, -2/+13for those of you that are to used to photo shop it change
http://www.gimpshop.com/
makes the gimp look and feel like photoshop. - svensksvamp, on 07/13/2008, -8/+19I usually say photoshopped to my gimped images.. too bad, I should really promote Gimp instead..
- neko, on 07/13/2008, -0/+11Yeah, but try making a backronym out of it.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+12Oh but wait, would it make more sense if you considered that some types of bondage/S&M wear are called 'gimp' suits (because they restrict your movement)?
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+9 Not by a long shot...very beginner stuff.
- MadOtaku, on 07/13/2008, -3/+12I prefer the terms 'manipulated' or 'edited'. Both convey the same thing and require no familiarity with a particular application. GIMPed does sound kinda weird though.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+10In both definitions of Free, you fail.
Illegally obtaining something doesn't count, and it's not Open "Free".
And GIMP sucks? Well apparently not, eh. - Murdats, on 07/13/2008, -0/+9yes but photoshopped is easier. eg.
this image was digitally manipulated
this image was photoshopped. - GeleGrodan, on 07/13/2008, -9/+18Is that the best you could do with Gimp? ...Damn
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -3/+11Actually that's because good images done in GIMP aren't usually noted that they were - I saw a few incredible pics done in GIMP, but i don't remember how i found out. For one of them at dA i found out by conversations with the author...
- bjornski, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8I'm guilty of using "shopped" all the time, even tho most of my edits are done in Paint.net. ( still use PS7 tho, I prefer it to later versions for what I do).
And I say "Google it" all the time, but I always use Google, so.... - mossblaser, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8Thus is the point in the article. The general opinion is such things cannot be made in the GIMP, this artcile shows that stuff can.
- goblindegook, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8Lots of people say aspirin. And Tylenol is paracetamol --- you don't want to get the two confused and end up giving aspirin to a small child.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 07/13/2008, -1/+9Eh, I don't think you can blame the GIMP simply for being unlike Photoshop. I remember the first time I ever used Photoshop. I was totally lost and had no idea how to do anything at all. I was confused because it was so different from the last image editor I had become so used to, MSPaint. I certainly don't think that MSPaint better than PS, but for a while I avoided PS if I could get away with Paint. It sounds silly, but it's reality that you will likely hate using any piece of software until you take the time to sit down and get really familiar with it.
My point here is that all these people saying "Yatta yatta, PS is better." are almost unanimously speaking out of a sense of convenience from familiarity. I promise you the vast majority of these people have spent hardly a fraction of the time they've used Photoshop working in the GIMP. It's unfair to go around saying the a software is lacking just because you personally don't want to be bothered to learn how to use it.
If you like PS that's fine, use that, but you don't need to run around telling everyone pencils are better than pens simply because you know how to use one and not the other. It's nonsense. - smotpoker, on 07/13/2008, -1/+8I just stick to 'rendered' and 'edited'. I've never really applied the term 'shopped', 'photoshopped', etc since they just seem inaccurate for reference to anything except use of photoshop. Similarly, I don't use 'google' except in reference to searching google specifically, etc.
I am sorta compulsive though. I tend to ramble on endlessly all of the time making sure there is no room for error with anything I say and that any such room is properly measured and disclosed. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -3/+10You don't get it.
While photoshopped is a generic term, some people underestimate the power of GIMP or completely disreguard it. Or worse. This serves as both a slap in the face and a tribute to a great piece of software. - mynameistux, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7hear hear
- dbr_onix, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7As far as I'm aware, the general opinion is that GIMP *can* make such things, but no-one really wants to use it because of the UI (which for most people is basically the only difference between Photoshop and GIMP)
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+7Yep, idiots at work use it all the time.
"Outlook me later, ok?" etc, etc
These are the same types of people who think PC means Windows.... - serenityflexed, on 07/13/2008, -1/+7I use Gimpshop, having never even touched Photoshop. I think it's just a huge UI improvement.
Ha, BTW, after reading doctorinfierno's post about the name 'Gimp', notice that "Gimpshop" too, is, by proxy, just as bad. - bizchris, on 07/13/2008, -1/+7Bring out the GIMP.
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