Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
Hello!
I've been making pictures with my Pentax K10D (my first digital
camera) for over a year now. After deciding which photos to print, I
take them to the lab and the owner, and only employee, makes all the
changes I want in Photoshop - all I have to do is sit by his side and
ask him manipulate the images as I want. But now I want to start
"photoshoping" my own photos...
I own a Mac and prefer to spent some money on a lens, or other
equipment, instead of software - well, I guess that in digital
photography software should be considered (unseen) equipment :-)
As far as I know, Photoshop is _the_ image manipulation program. It
seems to be "easy" (compared to GIMP) to use and is on the expensive
side. On the other hand, GIMP is GPLed software but its interface is,
to be nice, awkward.
None of the differences above are technical - I mean differences that
can change the outcome of an image after manipulation. Are there any
technical differences between Photoshop and GIMP?
TIA!
Have you considered Lightroom or Aperture? If you usually confine your
post-processing to the usual darkroom concepts like dodging/burning,
vignetting, simple blemish touchups and the like, these two apps are
much simpler to use them Ps or Gimp and are better for processing large
numbers of shots.
As for technical diffs between Gimp and Ps, there are many. Whether they
are important to you depends on what you do. Ps has much more 16-bit
processing capability than does Gimp. That results in less quality loss
as you work on your images. Gimp has fairly limited layer capabilities
(no Smart Objects for instance). Ps has many more filters than Gimp,
though Gimp has some that Ps doesn't. Gimp is missing LAB colour-space,
which I am using more and more lately.
A biggie for me is that Ps comes with Adobe Camera Raw. I end up using
that application/feature by itself for a lot of my post-processing now,
pretty-much skipping Ps altogether. So it's kind of Lightroom-Lite for
me. It's an all-16-bit, non-destructive path from RAW images through to
rendered image.
I certainly do use Gimp, but for 8-bit light-duty processing at work
where I don't have a copy of Ps. I don't use it for any shots I desire
to "exhibit".
-bmw
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