Hello! I don't understand anything about digital image manipulation but I've got to learn as, last year, I finally bought a digital camera, after making photos with film for many years, mainly B&W which I developed and printed myself. To learn digital image manipulation I need a program such as GIMP and Photoshop.
Another important piece of information about me: I've been using Un*x since 1986. These days I use OpenBSD (server) and Debian/Ubuntu/gNewSense (desktop/laptop) and I don't want to change OS - if I have to, I'll be changing to Mac OS X, no Microsoft Windows. According to my 'research', Photoshop is the 'de facto' standard for image manipulation, quite expensive and exists for Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. GIMP is free, its license is GPL, and exists for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. My 'research' included asking on a mailing list about photography (photos made with a specific brand of cameras) about technical differences between these two programs. The answers I got can be summarized to: * Photoshop: Must be used for 'serious' work. * GIMP: May be used for 'serious' work if that means showing a photo on a web page. Otherwise forget it because: ** Is has no color management (I don't know what this is); ** Just 8 bit/channel; ** No CMYK. Even though answers on this list may be biased, I have to ear them. So, are this statements true? TIA! PS - I have also been advised to use a program such as Aperture (Mac OS X only) or Lightroom (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows), as that is what a photographer really needs. Because of this advise, I guess I'll be asking some questions on the digiKam and F-Spot mailing lists, as presume these make the same job as Aperture or Lightroom. -- Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta ille nihil dubitat quem nulla scientia dictat _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
