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

[Chris Spencer <chris forevergalleries com>]

There once was a product known as the GIMP.  Then someone said "wouldn't
it be cool if we could touch up video" and others said "Yes, it would be
cool" and it was done.

Film Gimp was born.  Then someone said "but we are more than GIMP we are
CinePaint" and others mindlessly chimed in "Yes, master" and it was so.

http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/

CinePaint is EXTREMELY popular in the movie business.  So is Linux for
that matter.

-Chris

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 08:26, Marc Maxwell wrote:
> GIMP is amazing.  I am not personally very skilled in it, but I have
> read some amazing things in Linux Journal and other magazines.  
> Photoshop, to me, is very flat and static compared to GIMP.  When I was
> in Ca there was even a GIMP 'movie users LUG' or something like that for
> people in the movie industry.  YOu hear about it being used for major
> movie edits and stuff like that, which is pretty far out of the basic
> user level, but it's nice to know it has such capabilities.  
> 
> In my opinion GIMP will do everything that photoshop will do, and GIMP
> will also do a lot that photoshop will not do. As with other open source
> tools, of course, there's a learning curve, but that is expected with
> any worthwhile application.  Maybe the kids can delve into the app and
> it will (hopefully) help them to not focus on the old machines.  
> 
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> Marc Maxwell
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> >>> gary frederick jsoft com 9/9/2004 7:43:03 AM >>>
> Howdy,
> 
> and you should consider getting GIMP for Windows and seeing if it runs
> on the machines in the class.
> 
> and bring KNOPPIX and see if that runs. If it does, explain it will be
> SSLLOOWW because it is running in memory. That tests if the machines
> will load k12ltsp without problems and shows GIMP.
> 
> Gary
> 
> Karl Sarnow 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
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 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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