On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:19, Pascal Terjan wrote: > Maybe you're right for people that start with photoshop...
He's talking about people who use it for a living, like the people who designed Mandrake's promotional materials. That said, I have known a couple photoshop-using graphic designers who have at least messed with the gimp and not hated it (and a couple who did hate it, largely because of the confusing multi-window interface.) It goes without saying that anyone working with print media can't use it yet because of the lack of CMYK, but for most uses (yes, even most business uses) it's fine. I think if they took their heads out of their asses about MDI, Jasc would have something to worry about even if Adobe doesn't. Speaking of ass-head-removal, I look forward to the day when cinepaint starts replacing the gimp as the de facto Linux image manipulation program, not just because of its slightly less hostile interface but also because the two most common cultural references to the word "gimp" in the US (and maybe other English speaking countries) are very, very negative and one could very well get you sued if the wrong person heard you utter the word. Some of us *are* using and promoting Linux in business. I'm glad cinepaint is at least in contrib. Rob
