Hello, once again! Thank you all for pointing the technical differences between Photoshop and GIMP and other available options. I'll now be answering every email on this message.
- Graydon Using vi... I guess you use/used some sort of Unix. I prefer GNU Emacs :-o As I don't want to star an holy war (totally unrelated to photography), I must say that I still use vi exclusively for system administration ;-) Even though my academic and professional background is on mathematics/computer science, I really don't know anything about image manipulation :-( This is one of the reasons I did not know about GIMPshop, CinePaint and ufraw. I'll be looking at these projects. Thank you! - P. J. Alling, Paul Stenquist and John Mullan P. J. Alling and Paul Stenquist, Photoshop Essentials? Don't you mean Photoshop Elements as John Mullan wrote? - Bruce Walker Yes, I've considered Lightroom but I wanted to know the differences between PS and GIMP. I did not considered Aperture because my Mac is an iBook. And yes, I confine my post-processing to the usual darkroom concepts. When I started making photos, my approach was to make no post-processing. I made the photo correctly or it was trash. Several years later I found out that Martine Franck (Henri Cartier-Bresson wife) worked the same way. This made me an happy teenager :-) Many years have gone by (I'm now 40) and very recently, after buying the K10D, I read on Ned Bunnell's blog that Ansel Adams said "The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways." After many years, this quote make me rethink the way I approach photography. I now do (well, I have it done under my supervision) some simple post-processing in film and digital. - Godfrey DiGiorgi I agree with you that "Image rendering/processing software (...) is *at least* as important as your most expensive piece of camera equipment. (...)". That is why I wrote "(...) well, I guess that in digital photography software should be considered (unseen) equipment :-)" When I started making pictures I used the cheapest lab I could find... But for the last 15 years (at least), I've been using the same professional lab to have my color film developed (I develop my B&W film), my film scanned, and film/digital images post-processed and printed. Finally, my question was to find out if it is a reasonable choice to use GIMP. I don't really mind spending some money as long as I'm convinced that I making the right choice. Back to "answering" everybody. Even though I'm an amateur, I try to be a perfectionist amateur. So, as I'm using an iBook, I've decided based on your answers, to download the trial version of Lightroom and give it a try. Once more, thank you all for your answers! -- Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta ille nihil dubitat quem nulla scientia dictat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
