Re: Nobody does it better [was Re: [Gimp-user] when even free advertising fails]

[Alan Horkan]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, David Marrs wrote:

 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:52:46 +0100
 From: David Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
 Subject: Re: Nobody does it better [was Re: [Gimp-user] when even free
 advertising fails]

 Alan Horkan wrote:

 ...GNU Image Manipulation Program...
 
 Ah, so I'm not the only one who writes Cinepaint on his CV. :) Forget
 that group layer effect nonsense, the biggest advantage Photoshop has
 over GIMP is that its name doesn't conjure images of a leather man kept
 on a leesh with his mouth zippered shut!

Please let's not get into that discussion again.  As you can already tell
I try and make an effort to use the full name of the GNU Image
Manipulation Program and get on with it.

Sven has made it clear that the name will not be changed
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/diary.html?start=144

Even if people did want to change the name the practical difficulties are
quite significant.  I do not think there is anything new we can say on the
subject.

I was deliberately trying to change the subject and talk about the things
we do like and take a more optimistic look.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

Inkscape http://inkscape.org
Abiword http://www.abisource.com



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RE: Nobody does it better [was Re: [Gimp-user] when even free advertising fails]

[Kalle Ounapuu]

 I would very sincerely be interested to know other things you 
 can do with
 the GNU Image manipulation program that cannot be done with other
 software, particuarly things that cannot be done in Adobe Photoshop.
 
 No need to go into the obvious well known issues of price, and Free
 Software which although important have been discussed to 
 death many times
 before and are usually given as the best reasons for using 
 the gimp (they
 are very good reasons).
 
 - Alan H.

One thing that just came to mind... in Photoshop you can adjust brush size with 
a slider bar. In GIMP, I don't see a way of adjusting brush size on-the-fly. 
Please point it out to me if I am missing it.

About brushes... Corel's Paintshop Pro and Painter seem to have much better 
on-the-fly brush settings than Photoshop or GIMP. But that is more about 
simulating painting.

Kalle
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