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A Gimp In Photoshop's Clothing

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-the-teeth dept.

comforteagle writes "Scott Moschella, from Attack of the Show!, set out to make The Gimp a little friendlier with a simple UI make-over, creating GimpShop. Despite an outcry from some developers, users have picked it up with passion. Howard Wen has interviewed Scott about why he did this. From the interview: 'I've always thought that GIMP was just as powerful as Photoshop. My way of proving it was to make GIMP work as close to Photoshop as I possibly could, given my limited programming experience.' As more Windows/Mac users discover powerful open source applications are they bound (slashdot disc.) to make more discoveries of this kind?" Update: 09/16 18:48 GMT by Z : Some users have pointed out this is basically an update to a previous discussion we've had. Link added for the sake of completeness.

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  1. It depends.. by Bomarrow1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    On what you call friendly. I'm sure some people out there would prefer a graphics editor without a GUI.

  2. Re:Changes overdue. by utnow · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a fan of OSS I'm required to tell you that you should do it yourself. We're trying to make software that has millions of hidden features! User interface is for wimps (gimps?) lol

  3. Re:Changes overdue. by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Calling it "GimpShop", though, is just begging for a (fully deserved) lawsuit. He might as well call it Microsoft Donald Duck Big Mac GIMP.

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  4. Re:Changes overdue. by lahvak · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, for writing a letter, the path is

    NotePad -> Emacs -> Jed -> Vim

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