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> My personal experience is that GIMP is not quite at feature parity with Photoshop 3 or 4. It's definitely nowhere near Photoshop 5 Layer Effects are the only

> My personal experience is that GIMP is not quite at feature parity with Photoshop 3 or 4. It's definitely nowhere near Photoshop 5 Layer Effects are the only 5.0 feature from Photoshop that GIMP doesn't yet have. There's also a million things GIMP does better or does at all compared to all the versions of Photoshop you mentioned. I can give you examples or you can spare me the time and just admit you've seen Photoshop 3/4/5 so long ago that you don't quite remember what it was like :)

Gualdrapo 4y ago
Creating/editing geometric shapes...?
- prokoudine 4y ago
  Vector shapes were added in 6.0.
  - blkhawk 4y ago
    Really? Can you make a shape then adjust it after you made it? Cause I cannot find that - as soon as I fill or stroke the vector it drops into bitmap and can only undone not adjusted.
    - prokoudine 4y ago
      I wrote above that Photoshop 5.0 (which GIMP was compared against) did not have vector objects, Photoshop 6.0 was the first version to have it. I'm getting a feeling that you are talking about something else here.
      - blkhawk 4y ago
        yes I assumed you were talking about GIMP - my bad
ImHereToVote 4y ago
Editing the alpha channel without having to sacrifice a goat and make an altar to Baphomet.
- prokoudine 4y ago
  Are we talking about GIMP or Photoshop here? :)
  - phire 4y ago
    Probably GIMP. Last time tried to use GIMP, I spend about an hour trying to work out how to remove an alpha channel without also applying it. I could clearly see the image I wanted in the red, green and blue channels. But because the alpha channel was filled with full transparent, all I could see outside of individual color channel mode was the checkered background. Deleting the alpha channel or converting the image format from RGBA to RGB just erased the entire image to black. I eventually found the solution in the eraser tool, which had an erase alpha mode. I had to set it to a really large size and go over the entire image. Would probably have been faster to just write a script in python.

Gualdrapo 4y ago

Creating/editing geometric shapes...?

prokoudine 4y ago
Vector shapes were added in 6.0.
- blkhawk 4y ago
  Really? Can you make a shape then adjust it after you made it? Cause I cannot find that - as soon as I fill or stroke the vector it drops into bitmap and can only undone not adjusted.
  - prokoudine 4y ago
    I wrote above that Photoshop 5.0 (which GIMP was compared against) did not have vector objects, Photoshop 6.0 was the first version to have it. I'm getting a feeling that you are talking about something else here.
    - blkhawk 4y ago
      yes I assumed you were talking about GIMP - my bad

ImHereToVote 4y ago

Editing the alpha channel without having to sacrifice a goat and make an altar to Baphomet.

prokoudine 4y ago
Are we talking about GIMP or Photoshop here? :)
- phire 4y ago
  Probably GIMP. Last time tried to use GIMP, I spend about an hour trying to work out how to remove an alpha channel without also applying it. I could clearly see the image I wanted in the red, green and blue channels. But because the alpha channel was filled with full transparent, all I could see outside of individual color channel mode was the checkered background. Deleting the alpha channel or converting the image format from RGBA to RGB just erased the entire image to black. I eventually found the solution in the eraser tool, which had an erase alpha mode. I had to set it to a really large size and go over the entire image. Would probably have been faster to just write a script in python.