[olug] Fwd: [Announcements] CrossOver for free on Wednesday,

[Sheldon, Roger W]

For a guy like me all that jazz you mentioned bout "context aware fill" (WHAT DA HECK?) or lack of image stacking or something alignment with a mask is .... well it's just a shame. I guess heck I dunno what yer talkin bout here. But Gimp does everything a full time home jockey like me. Meeting deadlines is not a prob for me.... sorry late gotta run



Roger Sheldon
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From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Obi-Wan
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 4:14 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: [olug] Fwd: [Announcements] CrossOver for free on Wednesday,

> The Gimp has 95% of the features and tools of Photoshop. If you're 
> used to Photoshop, there is a learning curve with The Gimp. The big 
> deal-breaker for some is a lack of CMYK support, but I wouldn't say 
> The Gimp is laughable in comparisons to Photoshop for most users.

Nobody outside the press printing industry uses CMYK any more, so that's less of a problem than it used to be.

I'm more familiar with GIMP, but I'm well aware of both the feature set and the 3rd party plugin support that PS enjoys.  Even as a GIMP user for over 15 years, I find the GUI unintuitive.  Not so with PS.

Groundbreaking features like context-aware fill are things that GIMP is unlikely to get in the forseeable future.  GIMP's lack of a usable method for image stacking, alignment, and mask creation is also painful.
PS' multi-image batch processing is pretty slick, while GIMP's requires writing what appears to be Lisp code.  Hello?  And don't even get me started on PS' integration with other software & third party plugins.

Yeah, I think "laughable" is an accurate term.  GIMP gets me by as a part time photographer, but it's way too restrictive for a full-timer who has deadlines to meet.

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