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

[Meraj Rasool Khattak <mrkkhattak yahoo com>]

-- Karl Sarnow <karl dadoka h ni schule de> wrote:

> 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
> > 

I have been using Adobe Photoshop from the last 4+
years, I found it very useful & easy to use. I started
using GIMP only a year or so ago. I can not compare it
completely with Photoshop, but from the day I switched
to Linux I have to use GIMP, I am able to do almost
eveything I was previously doing with Adobe Photoshop.

So it means if anyone starts using GIMP (instead of
Photoshop) they will be able to achieve the same
result as one could with Photoshop. By doing so any
person or institute will obviously save hundred of $$
in licenses.

After saving that money, that could be used in
improving hardware as Karl said.

Regards,

-Meraj

 
> > 
> 
> 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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