I don't have an alternate solution but I will say after using Photoshop for a time and moving over to GIMP, its not easy. The way they designed their navigation for simple things such as moving different layers, adding effects, or just simply adding text add to some frustrating times as you try and get used to GIMP. So if you really are ready to use GIMP try picking up a good book or looking at some video tutorials online to just learn the UI. Personally GIMP can match Photoshop in a lot of features that a web developer might need in editing/creating pictures but I still prefer Photoshop over GIMP because of the UI.
Clowkun aka Mr. Noland --- On Thu, 9/24/09, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: From: Chris Penn <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] Photoshop alternative To: "SoCal LUG Users List" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 11:35 PM I agree with Chris, Gimp is the best alternative to photoshop, and you can run it on several platforms. I actually prefer Gimp over photoshop. There is no real alternative to Illustrator yet, however inkscape is the closest FOSS choice. There are some alternative vector graphics apps that cost money, but i have never tried them. A second option is running Photoshop and illustrator in wine or CrossOver Linux (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxlinux/). I have setup photoshop and Illustrator successfully with wine and crossover in the past. CrossOver is a bit easier to use. The downside of using wine or CrossOver is that the newest versions of windows apps will sometimes not work depending how long the community has had to work the bugs out. Chris... On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Chris Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you sure you need "the power of Photoshop"? Most people don't need all > the stuff in Photoshop. GIMP is the best known open source program that > competes against Photoshop. If on the windows side ( maybe Linux if it runs > using mono), check out Paint.NET. > > Chris > > On Sep 24, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know that there are many alternative Open Source apps for Photoshop, but > unless someone actually has experience with those alternatives, there would > be no way of knowing which one is most powerful. I am wondering if anyone on > the list has experience with any Open Source apps that would do the same > thing as Photoshop basically. My question is: Which apps are the most > powerful, which are best designed for web app, and which are most similar to > Photoshop? > > Thanks > Paul > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
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