GIMP - Sawce?
 

Anyone using Ubuntu, have you heard of Gimp? Is it really as good as photoshop?

Sawce?! You know anything?

Thanks!

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

Anything you can do in Photoshop you can do in GIMP, its just done a little differently.

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

you calling sawce a gimp?

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

In fact, I remember reading an article ages ago that suggested GIMP could do things BEYOND the capabilities of Photoshop if you install some third-party plugins or some such tomfoolery. It was an article about the magic-wand tool.

I've used both and I prefer Photoshop because I've used it longer, but both can do it all.

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

The GIMP's UI is absolutely atrocious.

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

I use it on Ubuntu and on Windows because they have cross-developed it for Windows as well. It is a very strong and potentially more powerful image editing software than Photoshop but that brings me to why it's not winning over everyone:

Sawce is right; the GIMP GUI is way uglier and less user-friendly, if you will than Photoshop.

Slmclarengt

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

Yes, it is pretty darn ugly. Also, it uses 3 separate windows; which I find to be very annoying. The tools also annoy me because I'm used to Photoshop.

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

The multiple windows don't bother me so much on Ubuntu simply for the fact that there are multiple desktops to utilize.

Re: GIMP - Sawce?
 

+1, I actually prefer it to the Photoshop setup for this reason. The only time this annoys me is when I accidentally "lose" a GIMP window on another desktop. I can see why this would be annoying for the Windows releases though.

For basic things I find GIMP easier to use than Photoshop. I don't really do hardcore image editing though so my opinions are probably inaccurate XD. The main plus for why I prefer GIMP (for Linux atleast as I've never tried the Windows release) is it loads quite a bit faster and seems less resource intensive than Photoshop does for me on Windows.