On Wednesday 16 October 2002 11:29, Bill Vinson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:43:56AM -0400, Vestal, Roy L. wrote: > > Agreed. I use both. GIMP is WAYYYY better. At LULU, I showed it to some > > folks that were going to The "School of Communication Arts", and they > > were impressed enough to ask how they could learn linux and get GIMP... > > The GIMP is obviously impressive and is a tremendous coding > accomplishment, but in comparison to Photoshop it is not quite in the > same class. For simple work the GIMP is comparable in terms of the work > it can put out, but the effort will most likely take much longer in GIMP > as it has a VERY rough GUI in terms of work efficiency and some of it's > tools are rudimentary in comparison to Photoshop's. > > Now, don't get me wrong the GIMP is great, however, I can definitely > tell that it is more difficult to get the same work done. But you also > must look at how long each app has been out and evolving. Photoshop has > existed for a decent amount of time more and as such should be further > along. Plus, Adobe has real QA and UI designers who are paid to test > human computer interaction. I doubt anyone is using GIMP with the same > idea (or professional background in interface design).
Photoshop: ~US$500-700 plus updates each year or two Gimp: $0 A similar economic event happen to me when I bought AutoCAD 95 for $500. I did not keep up with the update path and now I'm out in the cold. I have to buy a brand new copy to be up to date. Gimp is a great alternative from a cost perspective. I've hacked around in it enough to get some graphics edited for DocBook docs. I am ready to do more now. Anybody got favorite Gimp learning sites they can share? I think this guy (http://www.ntlug.org/archive/tp/gimp/node10.html) sums up what I've been able to find by Googling on "Gimp tutorial" and "learning gimp". His suggestion about interpreting Photoshop techniques to Gimp fills me with a bit of fear that I'll not be able to find the equivalent steps in Gimp, especially since I've logged 0 (zero) hours on Photoshop. -- mueller, mike An engineer pretending to have useful IT skills. _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
