Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Ok, that was too much. I wanted to send you a mail last time already, but I assumed that you did this accidentally. Obviously you didn't. So please, when posting to this list, try not to use HTML mail. And if you absolutely can't turn HTML mail off in your mail client, then at least don't fiddle wi

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Mohler
FWIW, I'm truly sorry for posting *anything* related to this thread, and especially for the nasty tone. I should know better. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-18-06 21:22]: > drives me crazy. well, you said he used windoz! -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org@ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wah

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Anthony Ettinger
On 12/18/06, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:01:59 -0800 > Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How do you sell that to a corporation? How do you market that? The > > > > people in business su

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:01:59 -0800 Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do you sell that to a corporation? How do you market that? The > > > people in business suits are going to chose a program named Photoshop > > > over Gimp 11 ti

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Anthony Ettinger
On 12/18/06, John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to flame here or anything, but has anybody done an actual study as > to if IT managers are overlooking GIMP because of the name, and I'm not > talking anecdotes. I'm talking about a systematic survey. > I don't deny that some people MAY have

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Anthony Ettinger
> > How do you sell that to a corporation? How do you market that? The > > people in business suits are going to chose a program named Photoshop > > over Gimp 11 times out of 10. ...and MS makes a good browser. -- Anthony Ettinger phone: 408-656-2473 resume: http://chovy.dyndns.org/resume.htm

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread John Meyer
Not to flame here or anything, but has anybody done an actual study as to if IT managers are overlooking GIMP because of the name, and I'm not talking anecdotes. I'm talking about a systematic survey. I don't deny that some people MAY have a bias against GIMP, but you need to look at the other sid

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread lists
Carter castor wrote: > This goes right to the heart of my biggest complaint about GIMP > though: its name. I don't understand why the developers would put so > much time and hard work into creating a program as professional as > GIMP and then name it after a slang word for a disabled person. How

Re: [Gimp-user] miror image

2006-12-18 Thread David Marrs
norman wrote: > OK I give in. It is laterally inverted More commonly known as "flipped" =p ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Toby Haynes
Anthony Ettinger wrote: > Anyway, instead of flaming, how about some suggestions: > > Gimpressive > Gimpression > Out of all the many suggested (re)names, these two are the only two I've ever seen and liked. Maybe because many GNU and GNOME programs already have a leading G in the name, leavin

Re: [Gimp-user] plugins for photographers

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Swinn
David Hodson wrote: > Since this is the Gimp Users list - > DBP is a Gimp batch processing plugin (for Linux and Windows, and > probably anything else that Gimp compiles on). > > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html Cool, that is something I have been in need of for a while. Just fil

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread operator
is this "teacher" getting a bribe from the photoshop salesman? operator 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 student

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Conn
I would also think that it would be considerably better to have someone realize that just because the GUI is different, doesn't mean that it lacks in capability. I personally welcome GIMP's toolset, as well as it's capability. Although I have an older copy of Photoshop, which I spent about $650-

Re: [Gimp-user] plugins for photographers

2006-12-18 Thread David Hodson
Fabien3D wrote: > I had forgotten this one : BIMP > (http://www.dirfile.com/bimp_batch_image_processor.htm) under Window$. It's a > Batch Image Processor. Since this is the Gimp Users list - DBP is a Gimp batch processing plugin (for Linux and Windows, and probably anything else that Gimp compile

Re: [Gimp-user] new script-fu already obsolete

2006-12-18 Thread Alchemie foto\\grafiche
ate: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:44:44 +0100 From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] New scripts-fu already obsolete To: "Alchemie foto\\grafiche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain Hi, On Sun, 2006-12

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Anthony Ettinger
On 12/18/06, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/18/06, Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Bring out The Gimp" > How many people do you really think have seen that movie? For example, > English is my native language, and I've never heard this movie reference >

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread David Gowers
On 12/18/06, Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Bring out The Gimp" How many people do you really think have seen that movie? For example, English is my native language, and I've never heard this movie reference until it was brought up repeatedly on this mailing list -- this is

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread A. den Oudsten
Olivier Lecarme wrote: > Here is my own modest grain of salt in the discussion: > > I have been teaching Gimp to first-year university students for more > than six years, to one or two hundreds students every year. I have > never encountered any specific criticism among them about Gimp's GUI. > Mo

Re: [Gimp-user] miror image

2006-12-18 Thread norman
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 03:45 +0100, Marco Wessel wrote: > On Dec 17, 2006, at 8:36 PM, norman wrote: > > > > Sorry, but I must disagree. If I look into a mirror my right side is > > still on the right. If I could flip, then my right side would be on > > the > > left. > > Uh, no. Think of that p

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-18 Thread Anthony Ettinger
On 12/17/06, Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Gowers wrote: > > On 12/18/06, *Leon Brooks* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > "Anthony Ettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > You may have a point given 2 sof