On 12/16/06, Andrew Swinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John R. Culleton wrote: > > ON another list someone was complaining about the expense nad bother of > > upgrading to the latest Photoshop, including licenses etc. I suggested Gimp > > as a no cost/no fuss alternative for students. I received a long reply, much > > of which I am not technically competent to answer. I have never used > > Photoshop. Anyone else care to take a crack at one or more issues raised? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > As much as I love The Gimp (I think its the most awesome piece of open > source software around), if this is a school that is specifically > preparing students for digital design practices in the real world they > are going to need photoshop one way or another. After all it is still > the industry standard. > > My suggestion for this type of situation is this. Go with Photoshop > licences, but not quite so many. If you were teaching my child I would > want him or her to see all the main alternatives, not just the > commercial one. > > At least if they have a few Gimp'd machines they can do some real long > term testing. Maybe they can get the students trained in bug fixing and > feature programming. I hear GEGL needs some help? ;) >
My own 2 cents: If you're teaching a class, use Gimp. They can always adapt what they learn in Gimp to Photoshop if their company requires it. -- Anthony Ettinger phone: 408-656-2473 resume: http://chovy.dyndns.org/resume.html Currently available for contract work blog: http://www.chovy.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
