Re: [OS:N:] GIMP vs. Adobe Photoshop

[Karl Sarnow <karl dadoka h ni schule de>]

Larry D wrote:
> My daughter has started taking digital photography in high school this year. 
> But apparently the digital photography class is at the bottom of the food 
> chain as far as computers are concerned. They have an ancient version of 
> Adobe photoshop running on 1996 vintage computers. According to my daughter, 
> the students find this depressing as many of them have better stuff on their 
> home computers.
>
> I occasionally use the GIMP on my Linux machine but I have never used any 
> version of Photoshop. Can any one tell me how the latest GIMP compares to 
> photoshop? Will it run on 300MHz machines? I will be talking to the teacher 
> in a few weeks at open house. Perhaps I can convince her that this is a 
> better alternative than spending scarce resources on new versions of 
> Photoshop.
>
> Larry

Larry,
	the latest versiojn of GIMP is like all newer software fatter than the 
older ones. You will have problems running later KDE versions running on 
old machines. I have an old 400MHz AMD machine with 128MByte RAM and it 
runs SuSE 9.2 _ssllooowww_. As graphics operations are always CPU 
demanding, photo manipulation on these machines is no fun. This holds 
for Photoshop as well as GIMP.

Anyway I propose your students think of moving to GIMP, saving money for 
licenses and invest that in new hardware, which is necessary anyway.

Karl


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Dr. Karl Sarnow
Teacher at Gymnasium Isernhagen
German national co-ordinator of the European Schools Project
e-Mail: karl dadoka h ni schule de
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