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- cheeseplease, on 12/12/2008, -1/+43Gimpshop was discontinued over two and a half year ago. Don't use it. Use the newest gimp, it's great and easy to learn. Screenshot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gimp-utility-win ...
- coheedcollapse, on 12/13/2008, -6/+34"its interface and feature set runs neck-and-neck with expensive proprietary alternatives such as Photoshop"
That is a gross overstatement. While it'll get most done for non-professionals, it is in absolutely no way "neck and neck" with Photoshop and at the rate it's going, it never will be.
It is, however, a great alternative for the price (free). I use a combination of Lightroom and GIMP as a photojournalist and it gets pretty much everything that I need done done (that might be because the only things that I need to do are lens correction, levels, and unsharp mask. I don't like over-editing my stuff). - badenglishihave, on 12/13/2008, -3/+19I wish GIMP would catch on with more people. "Gimped" sounds so much cooler than "photoshopped."
- cme884, on 12/13/2008, -2/+18I find the best way to get the most out of my GIMP is to feed it once a day and every 48 hours let it get a bit of fresh air. But not too much - I don't want to spoil it.
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -3/+18The more bloated and expensive Photoshop gets, the more popular GIMP becomes.
I know GIMP isn't completely perfect, but it gets the job done for most non-professional work. - parax, on 12/13/2008, -8/+23Most of the time when people tell me that the GIMP doesn't cut it for professionals,, those same people have never used a single thing Photoshop does that the GIMP can't do. Hell, most of those people aren't even aware of anything specific that differentiates the two, they're just repeating a well-practised sentiment, they're not speaking from experience.
- jacekpoplawski, on 12/13/2008, -0/+15I love Gimp but this article says nothing interesting.
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -7/+14GIMP is a much better alternative to trojan-infected, illegal copies of Photoshop circulating the net.
I will agree, though, that GIMP does not compare to Photoshop for anything other than amateur and semi-professional level stuff. - nomasteryoda, on 12/13/2008, -2/+8Why do people would use the GIMP?
1. Free as in beer.
2. "Ships" with most popular Linux distributions.
3. Can do most all things the expensive software can do.
Pirate photoshop like many "owners" do or if you can spare 2 - 9 Franklins, then buy yourself a copy. Wait, if you have more than one PC or Mac, buy more. You'll have to do so to be legal. Or, just download a copy of the GIMP and spend that money other things like a better camera.
Hey, choice is good, times are tight. - coheedcollapse, on 12/13/2008, -0/+5Ok. I'm indecisive. Apparently the original client (Linux) is far more streamlined, because after a few experiments, I've found that levels do work much faster in GIMP on linux. Where it takes GIMP in Windows four or five seconds to roll down, it only takes a second or two in Linux.
Well, I hope they fix it. - createcontent, on 12/13/2008, -0/+5Gimped HDR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28817565@N03/31029194 ... - coheedcollapse, on 12/13/2008, -5/+10I use GIMP for my profession and have had experience with Photoshop. I have no idea how you can possibly think that I'm "repeating a well-practised sentiment".
Not only is literally everything in Photoshop 10x smoother (even with instant adjustment, in GIMP level editing is choppy and you have to wait like 4 seconds for any minimal changes to propagate throughout your image. Making minute level changes can be a huge pain in the ass when you're waiting around for the changes to happen.), you are missing the most important thing for almost any type of photographer, adjustment layers. Until GIMP gets fully functional and non-gimped adjustment layers, it's not even going to come close in utility.
Not to mention all of the cool crap you can do with photomerge in Photoshop, far more advanced selection tools, and all of the extra bells and whistles that CS4 added. - joemendis, on 12/13/2008, -1/+6Use it often and like how things are getting better with Gimp! It's about time some one made the Adobe guys innovate a little more...
- superterrorizer, on 12/13/2008, -2/+6Zed's dead.
Bring out the gimp. - orkist, on 12/13/2008, -2/+6Thats pretty gimp if you ask me
- nmalcolm, on 12/13/2008, -2/+6How about 1 reason: Use common sense.
Those 6 points are no brainers IMO - fierylungs, on 12/13/2008, -0/+4You could also make a donation (not that I begrudge you a gear upgrade tho.)
www.gimp.org/donating - oobuntu, on 12/13/2008, -0/+4never tried it, but
http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate.htm ...
should offer cmyk support - westyvw, on 12/13/2008, -0/+4Isnt thier a Python plugin for that? Most people dont realize that the GIMP is cool because it can be part of a larger tool chain.
- 4321234, on 12/13/2008, -1/+5I haven't used Gimp in windows or mac, but have used photoshop in windows and in linux using wine and cxoffice. Photoshop is a bit glitchy under wine or cxoffice compared to using it in windows. I haven't noticed choppiness or 4 second lags using gimp in linux.
- ScottyDelicious, on 12/13/2008, -0/+4I don't know if I would make the claim that it is "better" as I have heard some Linux purists say, but I do find GIMP to be quite competent with everything that I want to do. I do web design, and for years I have used a Mac with Photoshop as part of my core tool kit. For the last six months I have been using Ubuntu, and while I can't explicitly say that I have been "more productive", I can certainly say that I have not lost any productivity. The bonus, for me, is that I get a lot of satisfaction through using free open source software. I like tinkering and solving the problems that inevitably come up when using a Linux distro and other free software. It is certainly not for everyone, but I feel like it suits me quite well.
It took me several weeks of frustration trying to do things in GIMP that were common knowledge for me in Ps. Once I figured it out, however, I found GIMP to be a great fit for the kind of graphics work I need to do. That is mostly creating web layouts, graphic elements for web applications, and logos. I have also used Inkscape for the graphics that are better suited for a vector format.
As a bonus, GIMP (I am using 2.6.1 as of this writing) has opened the majority of the Ps CS3 files that I have thrown at it. I say the majority, because certain things like layer styles (drop shadows) did not translate into GIMP speak in a few of the files, but a few out of 80 - 90 files is tolerable for me. It was easy enough to choose Filter > Layer Effects > Drop Shadow in GIMP.
I feel like I got my money's worth :)... Am I right? Anything free is worth saving up for. - ldog, on 12/13/2008, -0/+3
Easy way to get a ton of working plugins for gimp in one bundle:
http://www.gimphelp.org/script24.shtml
The URL has a 2.4 in it, but the scripts are for 2.6.x - mikeophile, on 12/13/2008, -1/+4Dugg because you posted what I was about to post with that "neck and neck" quote.
I haven't used Lightroom enough to know it's full capabilities, but have you seen blueMarine? It looks like it could be an open source contender.
http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/ - oobuntu, on 12/13/2008, -0/+3I'm glad "Grokking the GIMP" is a free online book, since I'd probably be arrested for asking my local bookshop if they have a copy in stock.
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -1/+4@"4321234":
Wow, software on Wine runs worse than software running on its native platform?!!! Stop the ***** presses! - beermad, on 12/13/2008, -0/+3Possibly the crappiest posting about a useful program that I've ever seen on Digg. Maybe it was a mistake to think I might find something useful there.
- ScottyDelicious, on 12/13/2008, -0/+2Naturally I am always prone to digging a comment with a Butch Coolige quote in it.
- coheedcollapse, on 12/13/2008, -0/+2I booted up GIMP in Linux and I have the same problem with large images. Very slow propagation across the whole of the image. Anything under 1028 for the largest size is almost instant, but 3000 and up and it takes like 4 seconds to roll down.
- fierylungs, on 12/13/2008, -0/+2But I wanna steal software that reinforces proprietary computing!!!
/s - coheedcollapse, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I've seen Bluemarine on and off for a while, but I can't remember if I ever committed to installing it. I'll definitely give it a try.
Lightroom, though, might be tough to contend with. On the surface it's not much, but there is a hell of a lot of stuff in that program that is useful. - LastDitchHero, on 12/13/2008, -1/+2Repress bad memories much?
- factotum218, on 12/14/2008, -0/+1It might just be me, but since I first started using GIMP in around 2001-02 I still feel like I'm using Photoshop 4. All the documentation mentioned is old hat. It's like nothing's budged.
- SpitRage, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1True, its not even compatable with OS X since 10.5 updated its X11. I wish that Gimpshop would be open-sourced and then picked up again, having to learn a new interface to do some minor photoediting is more than most are willing to do.
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1"Bring out the gimp!"
- compacho, on 12/13/2008, -1/+2One major thing GIMP doesn't have is CMYK support. Without it, you can't expect much professional work to be done on it.
- wonderbriefs, on 12/13/2008, -3/+3GIMP will never get serious use in the graphic design world, at least as far as print is concerned, until it can do CMYK
- DreadKnight, on 12/13/2008, -3/+3Gimp is so much better at pretty much everything than photoshop.
Wish next major version will have an unified transform tool. - coheedcollapse, on 12/13/2008, -1/+1No no no, there isn't any general chopiness, but when dynamically adjusting layers in larger images (i.e. literally every image that comes out of my camera), it takes five or so seconds for the changes to roll down the image in the instant display as opposed to Photoshop's truly instant display.
I'm going to boot up Linux really quick to make sure that this isn't just a Windows problem. - coheedcollapse, on 12/13/2008, -1/+1I'm totally flooding this thread with my replies, but I figured I'd take a quick video of what I'm experiencing with Windows GIMP and level editing. While it's not completely unbearable, it can be a pain in the ass on larger photos and if you really want to get going.
The photo I picked from my collection has a max length of 4255, by the way.
http://www.vimeo.com/2511587 - lowtolerance, on 12/13/2008, -1/+1innovate more? as in how? they're where they are precisely because they're able to consistently innovate.
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -2/+2I'll have to read the Grokking... book for some self-training, probably, but, in my experience so far, the images Gimp has saved for my web use have been far more massive than those Photoshop could squeeze out. Alpha channeling and "magnetic lasso" selection is a big difference, too.
- cheekymonk3y, on 12/17/2008, -0/+0Most, more likely all, of the trojan warnings your anti-virus picks up from your downloaded version of Photoshop is a false positive of the keygen. Anti-virus' always do this with keygens. I don't know the exact reason, although i used to, but this has been happening for a long time.
- romeberdratono, on 12/19/2008, -0/+0I'm learning in a fast way, thanks
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