I worked with it a bit, a couple of years ago, on Red Hat Linux as it was the only serious graphic tool I had available on that OS that even came close to Photoshop...but that was before they made GIMP capable of working with PNG graphics. Because of some of the work I was doing in the past year, we were looking at being able to embed metadata into the images and PNG, as a format, is very good for this sort of thing. You can do it to TIFF files if you use ImageMagick, but it isn't as straightforward as with GIMP and PNG channels.
I managed to install GIMP from a download on an iBook 2K (dual-USB/Firewire) at my old job and started working with it. Then I decided I wanted to buy the most recent CD version and try and install it on my Rev. B iMac running Jaguar. I could never get it working properly, and frankly, I lay blame on the CD...files that should have been there didn't seem to be there and it never really installed properly. As for the X11 package, I was using the one from Apple and have run other X11 apps, so I don't blame it.
I'll probably give it another shot, as I am at a different job and am no lomger working in an essentially all-Mac environment. The nice thing is that GIMP is cross-platform; anyone seriously working with graphics should probably be trying to learn about as many different tools that are cross platform as you can stand to learn, including the command line ones like ImageMagick. If you just want to learn how they work, consider getting a cheap machine to run Linux (there are a few old Sun SPARCs out there that can be had with 19" monitord for >$200...and they make great little Linux boxes) or even, Heaven forfend! a cheap PC.
Good luck and keep us posted as to how it works.
Dennis
You sound sound like you have experience :-)
On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Dennis Moser wrote:
GIMP happens to be one of the few tools available right now that will allow full editing of PNG graphics, better than what Photoshop is capable of doing, which only handles PNG graphics through a plugin. It isn't just for megageeks, but it IS the only such tool for OS X...and yes, it IS a pain in the A to get running on Jaguar...especially since it REQUIRES X11 to function.
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