>>Alle 17:32, mercoledì 31 marzo 2004, Frits Wüthrich ha scritto: >> I don't like the GIMP very much. My experience is not based on the >> version 2 release though, but on older versions, and only on Linux. >> 16 bit per colour is not supported, no colour management, awkward user >> interface, although one might get used to it, a lot of tools don't have >> a preview for the effects
I'm running GIMP 1.2 under linux and windowsME, and photoshop 3.0 and 5.5 under windows3.1 and MacOS 8.5 respectively. I run photoshop 7 in MacOS 9.? at work. The GIMP 1.2 user interface is fairly similar to photoshop 3.0, and appears to have been modeled on it. Photoshop has changed a lot, often for the worse. For what I do, Photoshop 3 was more convenient than 4,5,or 5.5. PS7 seems to have restored a sane UI for photoshop, but I haven't seen CS. It is pro color management that keeps me from using GIMP for work. I've got some nifty curves/levels presets that do about 90% of my digital darkroom work for me, and if you can do things like that in GIMP I haven't figured out how. The lack of proper preview for many tools is an annoyance. GIMP 2.0 may have improved this. GIMP 1.0 did not have dodge and burn, which was a real problem. GIMP 1.2 does not have brush-size cursors (as far as I can tell) which is also a real problem. GIMP 1.2 DOES have some features that I really wish photoshop had--programmable hot keys, for example (PS3 key bindings were changed in PS5, and if you can change them back I haven't figured out how) and scripting interfaces (which photoshop just recently has, although it has always had a powerful macro ability). GIMP also runs on *nix, and is free. These two features explain why I have not bought a version of photoshop since my student discount went away. The cost of PS plus the cost of an operating system to run it in exceeds the cost of a good digital P&S and approaches the cost of a DSLR, or a bag full of lenses. >Thank you, I really want to know what a PhotoShop user miss in The GIMP, >you >have pointed out three non-present features (sry, awkward UI isn't a >missing >features for me ;) ). >I'm going to check out if you are right or if, meanwhile, they have >implemented them... GIMP 2.0 appears to be primarily revamped UI and changes under the hood. I don't know how much additional functionality it has, other than a text tool that is now more like photoshop 5+ than photoshop 3. I recently read a posting, on Rob Galbraith's forums I think, saying that you could run Photoshop 7 under WINE in Linux. Can anybody confirm this? I've got a source of PS7, and it won't offend my ethics to get a free copy of a product that Adobe no longer sells. Last I looked photoshop was one of those applications that gave WINE real trouble, and through PS5 just didn't really work in the WINE environment. DJE
