Downloaded Yosemite. It destroyed my 7 year old free PhotoStudio. PhotoStudio was fairly easy to learn and provided ALL the tools one needed to alter photos with very professional results. Easy sizing of tools. Easy choices of color. Easy learning of various tools. Great software. It was developed then for the Wannabe editors for personal use. and it was FREE. Just challenging enough. I'm distraught in having lost it. ---------------------------------- Being FREE, I chose Gimp as a replacement, thinking Gimp was going to be simple, like the old PhotoStudio was..
My Yosemite wouldn't allow download. I downloaded MacPorts.. no good. The 3rd download you offered, it opened right up. First off, tool box and color chart popped up...easy choices. Vertical box which I assume had sizing & layers within but not simple to understand at first viewing. Next day, Only the Image Manipulation Window appears....No tool box choices. No color choices. No whatever that vertical box was trying to convey... Only access now to the GIMP program is the horizontalTool Bar, which offered so many choices that it was overwhelming. Simple GIMP is NOT. You know...there are a million of us intermediates out there that NEED learning software. A free service should be aimed toward intermediates like me...who found PhotoStudio just difficult enough to challenge but easy to learn, and a delight to use. I'd be glad to pay $10 for a Free software that helps me edit pictures for fun and a professional look with simple tools. Your GIMP is for the professional person...why do you give it away. Why don't you have TWO free offers...one to attract the professional who wants your complexity for free...and the second to TEACH the beginning-intermediate editor to be a professional editor who could understand and use your present GIMP. Give us, for example, the old PhotoStudio simplicity as a free software editor. That was a GREAT photo editor. I recommended it to everyone I knew. Now it's obsolete. What a pity... everyone now is supposed to be a learned professional and we intermediates are left out. Sincerely. Frances _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list