PS users are always “Dishing” Gimp but no comparison jibes at other good IMP’s… could it be that Adobe Inc encourages this bourgeois attitude? Could it be that Adobe Inc foresee’s a credible community evolving? Could the Adobe community be realising this… hence the jibes..

Remember Adobe strength really took off when they acquired Macromedia and promptly suffocated FreeHand (RIP) but kept Flash..

FreeHand was always superior to Adobe Illustrator.. and Flash…well no creation of Adobe Inc.

As for CMYK…. most PS users don’t publish to magazine publications…do they?

And as for the missing “Bells & Whistles” that GIMP hasn’t served up… well its about Patents and BIG money and as GIMP are a team of volunteers…it will take a while longer to have the comparative “Bells & Whistles”..but they are in the making.

Lastly, GIMP is not out to be a clone of Photoshop…but its own unique working environment. Its an evolution and maturing all the time. It does not seek to upstage PS but to offer an “alternative” of its own..

Open source is here… if its so bad…why then are big companies like Google, Amazon, Yahoo,Motorola, Samsung & Nokia to name some are embracing it?

To all those PS users… its better to have an alternative too as this century belongs to the emerging world market and opensource…. which the Western nations, particulary America, are finding hard to contain.

No, that UI is for making it easier for photoshop users to switch to GIMP. GIMP users need no Photoshop UI emulation because they are not used to work with a photoshop UI at all.

I am using GIMP because it worked on nearly every machine and operating system I came across in the last 12 years. I have no problems running it from an USB Stick on every PC I came across and it does the same like PS only with less clicks. That saves time.
There are some things I miss in GIMP (like non destructive editing and CMYK support) but there are also abilities of GIMP I miss in Photoshop CS4 additional to that abilities I told you above.

And then there is something else I do not like: I do not like programs phoning home to their developers without asking me and putting/hiding proprietary information on my computer and in my image files. That is something an open source program could never do in secret, because everybody can look into the source code. Last but not least there are the license problems: since 2005 I try to get rid of any Program that requires an online activation because only one of my PCs is connected to the WWW. The PC I mainly work with has never had and will never get any connection to the internet because I rate every operating system as "infected" if it has had a connection to the WWW. So I cannot install a program that needs to be activated on my trusted machine. Therefor I do not buy such programs anymore no matter what.

Have a nice day

thinkwice

honestly the only people who would choose gimp over cs4 are those who can’t afford cs4 (or know how to get it free).

I haved used both and gimp has been good to me so has corel PaintShop Pro.
But since getting cs4 I find myself only using the others if I have not learned how to use the the cs4 equivalent of an effect I want. and as I learn gimp is becoming less needed as corel is even better then gimp and gimp was just kept for thr the same reason I keep corel with cs4 (Till I learn to use the new 1)

gimp is good because its free, some parts of its development were innovating but thats it. and besides you can not compare gimp to cs4 because most of gimps features only get added after photoshop like layering. and popular add’ons make gimp look like photoshop.

gimp users want cs4 so bad they make gimp look like it yet they try saying its better.
and to the guy above yes you are a cowboy because like a cowboy you must be poor & not able to get cs4 to be such a gimp fanboy.

we all used gimp in the past if spence & peter would have kept at it and organised thing then gimp might have been a true competitor.

but gimp has gotten stupid and a lot of add ons and crap actually need to be purchased. I watched gimp go from a great idea to a joke and only diehards refuse to move on.

adobe cs4 is the best program photoshop after effects and sony vegas pro 9 make me happy artist.

I would suggest that you check the post I wrote on YLovePhoto just about that.

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