John R. Culleton wrote: > ON another list someone was complaining about the expense nad bother of > upgrading to the latest Photoshop, including licenses etc. I suggested Gimp > as a no cost/no fuss alternative for students. I received a long reply, much > of which I am not technically competent to answer. I have never used > Photoshop. Anyone else care to take a crack at one or more issues raised? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
As much as I love The Gimp (I think its the most awesome piece of open source software around), if this is a school that is specifically preparing students for digital design practices in the real world they are going to need photoshop one way or another. After all it is still the industry standard. My suggestion for this type of situation is this. Go with Photoshop licences, but not quite so many. If you were teaching my child I would want him or her to see all the main alternatives, not just the commercial one. At least if they have a few Gimp'd machines they can do some real long term testing. Maybe they can get the students trained in bug fixing and feature programming. I hear GEGL needs some help? ;) Regards, Andrew Swinn _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
