Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-17 Thread Carter castor
That 4% needs to be weighed against the proportion of people who use image manipulation programs. A much higher percentage of United States residents edit digital photographs than Nigerian citizens, for example. Personally, I would name it after a famous painting or painter so that people would i

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-17 Thread Carter castor
This goes right to the heart of my biggest complaint about GIMP though: its name. I don't understand why the developers would put so much time and hard work into creating a program as professional as GIMP and then name it after a slang word for a disabled person. How do you sell that to a corpora

Re: [Gimp-user] Looking for text effects in the gimp

2006-10-16 Thread Carter castor
Sadly, I think text effects are one area that gimp is lacking in. He might be better off using PS for high quality text. On 10/16/06, Selso DaSilva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a artist friend I converted to using the gimp and inkscape, and he is having a problem. He keeps having to