[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(quoting out of order...)
> Sorry if my post offended. Hope everything works out well for you.
You did not offend me; you asked why I would do such a thing, and
I gave one explicit answer (poverty) and implied another (lack of
knowledge of alternatives).
If you'd told me that the Obvious Answer to my problems was that
I really Ought To Use a particular other (non-free) tool, _that_
might have been offensive (and in the past I've used the "Oh,
you're offerring me a copy, are you?" line) ... instead, you asked
and I answered. No offense.
> I'm fairly ignorant in regard to operating systems, so my comment
> may be misguided. PhotoShop Elements comes free with a lot of
> hardware, but it doesn't run on LInux.
Two things there: a) all I know about Photoshop Elements
(and I may be mistaken about even this much) is that it's
a stripped-down version of Photoshop ... is that right?
How badly will I miss features I learned to expect when I
did have access to a (now ancient) copy of Photoshop on a
Mac Classic, and that I take for granted in GIMP? Or is it
really "all but a little bit that hardly anybody ever misses"
of Photoshop?
And b) until/unless I can afford to seriously upgrade my
Windows hardware -- and I have trouble convincing myself
to throw hardware upgrades at Windows when I do so much
more under Linux -- not being able to run it under Linux
will continue to be a factor. I'm using an assortment of
hand-me-down hardware, so none of it is ever close to the
power of what people are buying new, and I tend to have a
lot of stuff going at once. Running out of RAM is always
a concern, and splitting the workload across several computers
(even if I'm only sitting in front of one of them) helps.
If Photoshop Elements plays nicely under WINE (and if WINE
plays nicely with X (I've never actually gotten WINE to behave
in the first place, so I'm doing something wrong)), that could
be a workaround. IFF[*] it also provides all the tools I'm
accustomed to relying on.
FWIW, I'm not averse to mixing command-line tools, like the
ImageMagick suite, into my workflow, when I'm not trying to
do something with them that really wants to be moused.
-- Glenn
[*] Mathematics shorthand for "if and only if".
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