> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:38:38 -0400 > From: "carol irvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing > > ................................................... The instructors don't > care about > anything but the artistic merit of the results. If I were the student, I'd > just go home and do the art work on the Gimp where I could have all my > comforts around me for the days and days of long hours needed to produce the > art work. you could do some of the art work in the classroom in photoshop > and then store it online before you left so you could pick it up at home.
I did lots of portraits, sketches and paintings (until I got into computing!). I selected Gimp to learn photo-retouching and mouse-drawing myself - I was a complete beginner to photo-editing programs - Gimp or PS. However, I learned a LOT! from the book "Grokking the Gimp" (available from www.gimp-savvy.com) and the tutorials available from gimp.org, gug and gimpguru. Particularly, I increased my understanding about color theory from "Grokking the Gimp". Also, one or more tutorials taught me masking extremely well. Later, when I used PS, I was surprised to see the masking feature was integrated in PS in a very easy sort of way which wouldn't have helped me in actually "learning" about the masking. In Gimp, you do masking knowing the way it (masking) actually "is" really. So, with my knowledge of Gimp, I was easily able to do masking in PS as well - the same way I did in Gimp - "without" using the masking option of the menu - I did it simply from the layers dialog just I did it using Gimp. Same way, I learned about selections/masks/channels a lot from Gimp because Gimp didn't try to hide anything and nothing was made easy to the point of obscurity. So, as far as learning is concerned, I would recommend Gimp to everybody - because it made me understand things better and empowered me to use PS with ease. As far as its functionality is concerned, I think newer features/functions will be included as we get newer Gimp versions. Primarily I enjoyed using Gimp because I was able to do my sketches and retouching very easily and I was more interested in "learning" the ins and outs of this new re-touching stuff and Gimp helped me a LOT! - particularly the tutorials at gug, gimpguru and elsewhere on the Internet. -- Best regards, Asif _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
