Having
tried it out for a few hours, I feel personally driven to make a few comments. I
had previously worked on GIMP 1.x.
Note: I
eveluated the Windows version since I wanted to compare it to
Photoshop:
1. Good
interface - finally! Ok it's not photoshop yet but in a way the lack of clutter
is refreshing.
2. Command
organization - I really wish the image adjustment dialogues weren't in the
Layers menu but in the Image menu like in photoshop. Either way makes sense but
I spent a good number of minuts looking for the Curves dialogue. It's just
something to bear in mind I guess.
3. No CMYK
- Oh , oh! The best you get is a CMYK dcpomposition from RGB. And you can't save
the decomposed file as a combined tif. You can also use a CMYK color
picker but you still work in RGB space. The lack of CMYK editing and
saving will prevent this from being taken seriously by color printing
professionals.
4. No color
management - None, nada... You cannot even define which RGB Color space you wish
t work in.
5.
Layers/Channels/History - YES! It's about time GIMP gave us a good interface for
this.
6. Memory
-- GIMP is a bit of a memory hog. On my laptop, without an image file loaded,
Photoshop uses 15MB of RAM while GIMP 2.2 uses 19MB. Photoshop
wins...
7. Tools -
The tools box is much improved but still takes up too much screen space. On the
other hand, unlike Photoshop you can actually close this box and work off the
menu bar.
Overall --
I must say that GIMP has certainly grown-up. For a free tool, it's pretty
awesome in its ability to deliver professional image editing tools. But until
color management and CMYK editing is implemented, this will appeal only to Linux
based web designers.
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