PSA - THE Gimp 2.2 for Windows now ROCKS!
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That's what I was told a couple of years ago. 
Edit: Ahahaha look at the Mac screenshot for Gimp, I see an Adobe Photoshop icon!
Edit: Ahahaha look at the Mac screenshot for Gimp, I see an Adobe Photoshop icon!
I'd hazard that what The Gimp lacks of Photoshop, 90% of casual users will rarely/never need anyway. And you don't even have to steal it or shell out hundreds of dollars. What are you waiting for?!
The Gimp is WAY to much program for the casual user, and the interface is confusing as hell. Same with Photoshop. These programs are great for professional/amateur graphic artists, but overkill for the average person who is just trying to crop his christmas party photos. I would stear the majority of Windows people to the also free paint.net http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/.
Wow. Paint.net looks great! It even supports layers! Thanks. I've added it to the freeware thread at the top of this forum.
Originally posted by: episodic
Looks good for a total newbie. Not a good selection of tools, etc. Looking forward to version 6 or 7
It's better than what most people are looking for though. It might be easier to use than The GIMP since the interface is very similar to that of MS Paint. I'm still happy with my copy of Photoshop CS though.
Originally posted by: igowerf
Originally posted by: episodic
Looks good for a total newbie. Not a good selection of tools, etc. Looking forward to version 6 or 7
It's better than what most people are looking for though. It might be easier to use than The GIMP since the interface is very similar to that of MS Paint. I'm still happy with my copy of Photoshop CS though.
That looks great. I could never get a grip of GIMP. Very confusing interface.
:beer:
Malak
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You know what, I can remember when I started in PS. It was confusing as hell, plus I was teaching myself. No doubt GIMP would be just as confusing, but I wouldn't count it against it if it were just as powerful. I use PS though since it's easy to find files and tutorials on it due to it's popularity.
Yep.
Looking forward to trying it out on my nice new shiny Ibook. OS 10.3.7 is nice, btw. Better then what I remember from 10.2.6. PPC port of Ubuntu is nice, too.
Gimp is looking realy nice lately, especially with it's ability to incorporate scripting with python and script-fu. Makes it nifty.
Jeff7
Lifer
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Thanks for the heads up; I was waiting for the one developer, Jernej Simoncic, to release the last of the 2.0.x versions (think it was 2.0.6), but he never did; I guess he was waiting for the completion of 2.2. I'll have to give this a shot sometime. I've found GIMP to be very useful. It's a bit quirky, and there are a few features missing from the UI that are present in most other Windows programs, like in Explorer, you can press a letter key, and it takes you to a folder starting with that letter - not in GIMP. Unless they added that in 2.2. (Edit: Nope, looks like they haven't.)
Some tooltips also have a bug - they stay on top, even when the GIMP window is in the back. And they won't go away until the program is closed.
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Some tooltips also have a bug - they stay on top, even when the GIMP window is in the back. And they won't go away until the program is closed.
Screenshot (GIF, 160KB)
Alternate link, zipped BMP (53KB)
Works best in Linux. It's shared libraries are usually already in use by other applications so the load up time is quicker, usually. And then you have all that dialog stuff on one virtual desktop and the image itself and the toolbar and layers on one virtual desktop.
I configure Gnome to switch back and forth between virtual destkops with the "windows" (called super key sometimes), on the left, and the menu key on the right. Then I use them to switch back and forth quickly. That way I can have quick access to all the different dialogs and such without having to juggle windows around. Also works very nicely with dual monitors because you have all the tools and dialogs on one monitor and have the image itself on your bigger nicer one. That way I just keep everything open, plus when you have dual monitors it remembers the position of all your windows when you close out the app and open it up again. (just as long as you close out all at once, instead of window by window).
Stuff like that shows you that it was designed with the Linux sort of way at looking a window handling rather the relying on the MDI single-big-window-with-many-small-internal-windows type stuff that Photoshop uses, which is a sort of hack to make Windows window handling act more closely to the Mac style of window handling... since Photoshop was originally a Mac application.
Macs open each application in their own space. With the file-option-view-etc menus at the top of the screen. Click on any section of any application and it brings the entire thing up to the top, so all the photoshop windows and dialogs stick together. The big mother window type thing that Windows uses is sort of designed to emulate that behavior.
Windows just realy isn't all that good for handling all those small interrelated windows. Makes using Gimp awkward.
It's weird. I was shocked first time I used photoshop in Windows, the thing was so ugly and weird looking. I thought I was using a ancient version, but it was newer then the ones I used to use on Macs.
Then the same thing happenned when I first tried Gimp out in Windows. It was all slow and weird to use again compared to what I used to in Linux.
the little differences between the platforms are come out in strange ways.
I configure Gnome to switch back and forth between virtual destkops with the "windows" (called super key sometimes), on the left, and the menu key on the right. Then I use them to switch back and forth quickly. That way I can have quick access to all the different dialogs and such without having to juggle windows around. Also works very nicely with dual monitors because you have all the tools and dialogs on one monitor and have the image itself on your bigger nicer one. That way I just keep everything open, plus when you have dual monitors it remembers the position of all your windows when you close out the app and open it up again. (just as long as you close out all at once, instead of window by window).
Stuff like that shows you that it was designed with the Linux sort of way at looking a window handling rather the relying on the MDI single-big-window-with-many-small-internal-windows type stuff that Photoshop uses, which is a sort of hack to make Windows window handling act more closely to the Mac style of window handling... since Photoshop was originally a Mac application.
Macs open each application in their own space. With the file-option-view-etc menus at the top of the screen. Click on any section of any application and it brings the entire thing up to the top, so all the photoshop windows and dialogs stick together. The big mother window type thing that Windows uses is sort of designed to emulate that behavior.
Windows just realy isn't all that good for handling all those small interrelated windows. Makes using Gimp awkward.
It's weird. I was shocked first time I used photoshop in Windows, the thing was so ugly and weird looking. I thought I was using a ancient version, but it was newer then the ones I used to use on Macs.
Then the same thing happenned when I first tried Gimp out in Windows. It was all slow and weird to use again compared to what I used to in Linux.
the little differences between the platforms are come out in strange ways.
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I didn't know you got an iBook. Congrats! I didn't use 10.2, I went from 10.0 to 10.1 to 10.3.
Yep. The little thing is fun to use just got it for christmas, a sort of Xmas/Birthday/College Graduation present all mixed together, plus now I owe my parents 600 dollars.
it's actually quite resonably priced for 12 inch ultra-portable style formfactor with a good ATI mobility video card. (ATI 9200, and it's supported by DRI, too! Hardware acceleration is immediately configured with Ubuntu + hoary X.org update.)
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