i used both and i would say that:
1/ gimp is fast and as powerfull as photoshop
2/ i am extremely used to photoship UI and i need more training with
gimp UI
3/ my epson styluscolor prints in much better quality with photoshop
than with gimp although gimp has got a epson stylus color setting (the
colors are really ill-balanced and you have to play with printer settings
without seeing the result on the screen [no print preview] with gimp).
so i would say that i badly have to reboot to win95 to print my pictures.
i think i could enhance this because gimp can read a kind of
printer-color-definition table or something like that to improve printed
colors but i did not find this file yet. I have to find it because the
printing problem is the only one that makes a real difference for me.
pascal
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Olszewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 4:44 AM
To: Michael H. Warfield
Cc: linux-newbie list
Subject: Re: Photoshop and Gimp (was: VMware performance)
At 09:07 PM 6/8/99 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote [in part]:
> I think so. (But why would you want to run Photoshop when you
>have Gimp?)
Is this (implied) opinion based on actual experience with both products?
I
ask because I've not used Gimp, but one of the most important uses of my
Win95 machine is Photoshop (including use of a TWAIN scanner).
Have you actually found Gimp as functional as Photoshop with respect to
scanning, equalizing, applying a range of special filters, doing
threshholds, doing CMYK separations, doing duo- and tri-tones, and
controlling printer attributes such as line frequency, angle, and dot
shape?
Advice I've gotten locally suggests Gimp is far inferior to Photoshop
(this
from a local Webmaster who uses Linux for ***everything*** except
Photoshop
work, and who has the same scanner as I do). Before I go through the work
of
getting Gimp installed and running (and abandoning considerable
expereince
with Photoshop), I'd like to know that someone who has used both products
really does find Gimp satisfactory for high-quality photo scanning and
manipulation.
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