Well, you say something like if you print something in gimp the printout doesn't looks like the original. Yeah, but I don't see why it would take anything else than a good printfilter to get good results comparable to photoshop. Many CYMK features of Photoshop are actually nops just to calm those printing personal down. "Yeah, damit I want to see CYMK labels everywhere" (got a friend writing photoshop plugins) However the professional printing (YMCK) problem unfolds into many subproblems, first one is "need" Manyones needed a good image processing tool and we got it. I can't recall a good (afaik) painting programm on the GNU system and now I see everywhere (nice) images that are done with gimp. very nice, so professional printing isn't supported well. Second one is "request and availbility", most users think they've got some kind of right that free software does what they want. This is wrong. At least say can't complain until they ask for it and give at least some support like moral support, information, feedback, bug hunting etc. And of course access to esoteric hardware won't hurt when you write a program for esoteric hardware. Third is time. Please note that many programmers work in their spare time and don't have the time to read long articles or "hey, I've got a first post on/.". Most free programmers will program for stuff they own or can use. So very much useful stuff will never be implemented because the lack of time from good programmers (tlotfgp). That is, I guess you can help gimp alot when you give them some useful feedback. (especially abouta But I'm getting offtopic: I read your bottom line as "when you print something you see an image on your computer monitor, and print it using Photoshop you'll get something that resembles this image more than that printout gimp will produce" I'm getting a strange feeling and I don't believe this until I checked both gimp and Photoshop using the same printfilter. Getting back to Linux as a desktop:Linux is not a desktop (not yet, maybe in three years). Linux is not for you. Either you like Linux or you don't. If you do help linux (see above) or you don't than either you like another OS (so use this OS) or you don't so do something to save linux from its misery. If you dislike computers at all, you're welcome too, but please don't keep tellin' me how bad linux is. How can people laugh/complain about free software, when its effectivly for free? Why bother using Photoshop and gimp, when you can remove windows from your hd, gain space, never pay again for software and have the possibility to modify and extend any program in any freaking way you like? Well, I'm turning that preacher off again. But I'd still like to thank all the programmers that made possible the thing that lifes on my hd.
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Well, you say something like if you print something in gimp the printout doesn't looks like the original. Yeah, but I don't see why it would take anything else than a good printfilter to get good results comparable to photoshop. Many CYMK features of Photoshop are actually nops just to calm those printing personal down. "Yeah, damit I want to see CYMK labels everywhere" (got a friend writing photoshop plugins) However the professional printing (YMCK) problem unfolds into many subproblems, first one is "need" Manyones needed a good image processing tool and we got it. I can't recall a good (afaik) painting programm on the GNU system and now I see everywhere (nice) images that are done with gimp. very nice, so professional printing isn't supported well. Second one is "request and availbility", most users think they've got some kind of right that free software does what they want. This is wrong. At least say can't complain until they ask for it and give at least some support like moral support, information, feedback, bug hunting etc. And of course access to esoteric hardware won't hurt when you write a program for esoteric hardware. Third is time. Please note that many programmers work in their spare time and don't have the time to read long articles or "hey, I've got a first post on /.". Most free programmers will program for stuff they own or can use. So very much useful stuff will never be implemented because the lack of time from good programmers (tlotfgp). That is, I guess you can help gimp alot when you give them some useful feedback. (especially abouta But I'm getting offtopic: I read your bottom line as "when you print something you see an image on your computer monitor, and print it using Photoshop you'll get something that resembles this image more than that printout gimp will produce" I'm getting a strange feeling and I don't believe this until I checked both gimp and Photoshop using the same printfilter. Getting back to Linux as a desktop:Linux is not a desktop (not yet, maybe in three years). Linux is not for you. Either you like Linux or you don't. If you do help linux (see above) or you don't than either you like another OS (so use this OS) or you don't so do something to save linux from its misery. If you dislike computers at all, you're welcome too, but please don't keep tellin' me how bad linux is. How can people laugh/complain about free software, when its effectivly for free? Why bother using Photoshop and gimp, when you can remove windows from your hd, gain space, never pay again for software and have the possibility to modify and extend any program in any freaking way you like? Well, I'm turning that preacher off again. But I'd still like to thank all the programmers that made possible the thing that lifes on my hd.