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[inaki]

The Gimp is a programmer's view of what a graphical design program should be. Its good and has its uses, but it's not a replacement for Photoshop.

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[tkcom.livejournal.com]

I concur... I tried but it left me so frustrated... especially the 'insert text' function with so little options. I can't even 'bold' up the text! >.<

[ssurgul.livejournal.com]

Much like Open Office is a fine, upstanding example of folks trying their best to take on MS Office to provide a suitable freebie substitute. But just like a substitute teacher, it fails on a great many subtle and gross levels.

[mharpold8.livejournal.com]

I hate that goddamn program. :D

[higginsdragon.livejournal.com]

That's the best explanation I've ever heard for the GIMP. :) Basically a graphics program with very little input from artists.

[loranskunky.livejournal.com]

GIMP is a graphics application made by geeks (sorry, no offense). I will always stand by my saying of why Photoshop is so godd. That's because one of the people that created it is Thomas Knoll, who has worked for ILM as an Visial Effects Supervisor for a very long time and is one of the founders of digital imaging as we know it.

GIMP is great, but it's no Photoshop. Plus, it plays well with After Effects, Illustrator, and In Design.

[inaki.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see a graphics and video package thats opensource, and a real replacement for Photoshop, Premiere, etc. of course ^^

[tixen.livejournal.com]

I agree entirely.

[tixen.livejournal.com]

Also, I heard the sky was blue. WTF is up with that?

[funktaur.livejournal.com]

Well that explains why I seem to use it more than other people. I'm right in that middle ground. One of the big benefits though is that I can use it in places where running a borrowed copy of PS wouldn't be appropriate.

[higginsdragon.livejournal.com]

I have a theory about open source. It's primarily done by programmers on their spare time. Many of these programmers have day jobs or classes where they have to listen to project managers and program designers and interface designers or instructors telling them what must be changed in the application to satisfy the end user, a fair amount they think is pointless or should be done differently.

When they finally get a chance to decompress and toy around on their own, the last thing they want to do is listen to a project designer telling them what they can't do. (The best software is that which leaves out more than what goes in.) Which, sadly, is what an open-source program needs to compete with a commerical app. Open-source is highly democratic--one user wants a feature, it gets added and may make it to the main source tree--the best software is created in a more socialistic or even facist/dictatorial system. :)

[amethe.livejournal.com]

Can't stand photoshop and have had many people try to explain to me why it's so good. I just don't get it. Of course... the programmer's mind is a logical one :P