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Gimp Hits 2.0
jf writes "Gimp 2.0 released! From gimp.org: "This release is a major event, marking the end of a three year development cycle by a group of volunteers and enthusiasts who have made this the most professional release of the GIMP ever. It is the first stable release that is officially supported not only on Unix-based operating systems, but also on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OS X." Get it from ftp.gimp.org or from the mirror sites."
If it's officially supported - where's the Windows binary then? :-?
Last time I checked, MacOS X was at least as "Unix-Based" (darwin) as Linux, if not more...
I was offered a penny for my thoughts, so I gave my two cents... I got ripped off!
Photoshop is definitely much better and more mature than the Gimp, but it comes with a $600 pricetag. The Gimp starts to become more of an option when you don't have to use some of the more intensive photoshop filters. (So people actually do pay for photoshop, enough-so that Adobe had some good earnings this quarter).
no reason to knock the gimp. It has an amazing cost to ability ratio.
For the same reason it dosn't serve web pages. It is not a drawing tool, it is an Image Manipulation Program. Not that I would mind if they addedd better drawing functionality.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I'm a graphic artist and I use gimp and photoshop, along with opencanvas, illustrator and painter. They are all essential parts of my work. Gimp may not be as good as photoshop, but I use it for small effects because I like the look it achieves. It's kind of like using a ballpoint pen instead of a pencil. Sure, graphite pencils or quality brush pens are better, but the look of ballpoint can't be duplicated by anything else.
Really though, you probably don't really understand why photoshop is better than gimp to begin with. You probably like it because of the crappy filters and effects that come with it, but those are a total joke to anyone slightly professional. Everyone who is serious uses his own custom brushes and textures, and I use photoshop the most because of the power it has over brush controls (especially with my wacom tablet). Gimp still has it's place though, and it's an important one.
It's not just me, either. There are several other artists in my studio who use gimp all the time, too.
"I have no graphics experience whatsoever."
That's probably a good thing.. That way you're not stuck thinking, "hmph.. that's not how photoshop does it."
"You need CMYK? CODE it or PAY someone to do it for you."
But isn't that what he's doing by paying for a commerical application (Photoshop in this case)?
"Open source is not about getting stuff for free, but giving and receiving."
At the risk of being called flamebait, that won't do spit of good toward a true Desktop Linux end-user solution. Those of us developing software can give as well as take. But Joe End-User just wants to get their job done. Take take take. The mantra of the end-user.
And that's exactly what desktop linux is going to have to address, heck embrace.
So basically you have no insight here or have even used Gimp 2.0. You just felt like being a troll?
I swear Adobe users are some of the biggest Trolls I've met on the Net. Everywhere I go where someone dares to mention an alternative, the Adobe trolls freak out and show up in massive numbers to diss anything non-Adobe. If it wasn't cmyk it would just be some other thing.
Why can't you Photoshop snobs just accept the fact that Gimp is a decent image editor that differs from Photoshop and leave it at that. Why are you so freaking insulted that non-Adobe products are available? You have stock in Adobe or something?
Gimp is certainly the best Free image editor available and for home users it will do anything you could possibly want, especially when it comes to digital photography.
But then again I guess I'm just wasting my breath.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch