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Is there a significant style difference between using Gimp and Photoshop? I only know Photoshop, but I've always thought of Gimp as just program for doing basic
by edanm 16y ago
Is there a significant style difference between using Gimp and Photoshop? I only know Photoshop, but I've always thought of Gimp as just program for doing basically the same work. I wouldn't think there'd be a difference in the final product.
- RossM 16y agoThe most common complaints I've seen are that Gimp isn't Photoshop - meaning PS users who move to it dislike it due to the multi-window UI, 'wrong' key combinations. I actually used Gimp before PS and from my perspective the only things it really misses are layer groups and layer styles. For PS users there is Gimp Shop[1] which attempts to "deweirdify" the UI to something more reminiscent of PS. [1]: http://gimpshop.com http://gimpshop.com
- sireat 16y agoSadly, this is the reality of OSS, layer groups were first proposed (and accepted as a "good idea") as early as 2002, but actually are supposed to come out in Gimp 2.8, which I think is coming out in 2011? Meanwhile, one can run the external plugins such as this: http://registry.gimp.org/node/16563 http://registry.gimp.org/node/16563 For a programmer, GIMP is fine for an occasional photo editing job. Just wish, it could do a better job of importing Photoshop files. I know it is more of PS fault not GIMP's, but still.