Sorry for the late reply but I noticed this today when going over the mailing list. One significant difference to me is that Photoshop supports 10-bit color depth for display output, but as far as I have been able to determine, GIMP currently only supports 8-bit.
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, December 21st, 2020 at 11:53 PM, Δημήτρης Γιάννος via gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Hello, > > The last day I've been looking at various reviews of GIMP compared to > > Photoshop (on the image editing aspect only, as I know GIMP does not focus > > on anything else), yet none seem satisfying enough: they are being a bit > > vague with not many specific examples. I have seen some giving specific > > examples for brushes, selection tools and... generally editing tools, but > > I'm still not sure whether to trust them, because most people write reviews > > without actually learning GIMP in such depth as Photoshop. > > In short, they say GIMP lacks the convenience that Photoshop provides on > > how to handle tools and brushes. And also, they say the GUI is nicer over > > at Photoshop, but I cannot guarantee that. > > On the other hand, I have heard that GIMP has actually been easier to use > > and learn and more flexible than Photoshop. They say GIMP is actually > > greater at photo editing than Photoshop is. > > You can really see that opinions vary so much, I really don't what to > > conclude. Lastly, as I am really clueless about photo editing, I will refer > > to the Adobe Photoshop website which contains some short videos (gifs?) > > that show how photoshop works. They gave me the impression that the > > software works really smoothly (might be false of course, because of its > > size) and that it's really simple if you know what you are looking for. > > Could GIMP be like that too? > > I really don't know and that's why I ask you, who seem to have a lot of > > experience at such, photo editing, software like Photoshop. So, again, > > looking only at the photo editing aspect of Photoshop, what kind of things > > (tools,brushes, file formats, UI-related) do you think that Photoshop can > > handle better/worse than GIMP? I planned to make this mail short but failed > > miserably so if you made it this far, I appreciate it! > > Just a fan of FOSS and (GNU)Linux, > > Dimitris Giannos > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
