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GIMP 2.4 Released
Enselic writes "After almost three years since the release of GIMP 2.2, the GIMP developers have just announced the release of GIMP 2.4. The release notes speak of scalable bitmap brushes, redesigned rectangle/ellipse selection tools, redesigned crop tool, a new foreground selection tool, a new align tool, reorganized menu layouts, improved zoomed in/zoomed out image display quality, improved printing and color management support and a new perspective clone tool."
> It's been said that GIMP is one of the best Photoshop 3/4 clones around.
Except Photoshop 3 supported CMYK.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
The linked site looks 'shopped.
Dude, your username is "GiMP". Would you seriously ever admit any shortcoming to a product so beloved you named your user account after it? Seriously.
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Maybe he just can't walk. Let's have a little class, and not make fun of people for their disability or odd sexual proclivities.
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
What part of "patent" do you not understand?
>> It's been said that GIMP is one of the best Photoshop 3/4 clones around.
> Except Photoshop 3 supported CMYK.
He wasn't talking about Photoshop 3. He was talking about Photoshop 0.75. That has a lot less features...
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Actually it's the other way around. RGB has a much bigger range of colors than CMYK. Just do the math, each channel in RGB goes from 0 to 255 and each one in CMYK goes from 0 to 100. When you convert from RGB to CMYK you always loose some color, images look "muddy". And then you get into the problem of color profiles, which only make things even more complicated. I've been trying to get people to use gimp at work (prepress and printing company) and as soon as they see there's no CMYK they dismiss it.......
That's just math right?
I'd like to suggest a colour space which treats every pixel as a small black-body, storing every colour as a long double precision floating point temperature value. It has probably already been done, and it is probably completely useless, but at least then I can troll the CMYK people by complaining that their colour-space doesn't properly support cosmic background radiation.