[time-nuts] GIMP VS PhotoShop

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Fri Dec 28 09:01:05 EST 2007


From: Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GIMP VS PhotoShop
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:48:29 -0500
Message-ID: <4774FEAD.6000506 at erols.com>

> I happen to like the way Gimp is laid out, but I can
> see how others might not... I am more of a function over
> appearance sort of guy.  The Gimp is so much more powerful
> than Adobe Photoshop that it compelled me to learn its way of
> doing things.  It is a WordPerfect vs Word kind of difference
> in my view.
> 
> Like most open source software, turning The Gimp into
> a clone of Adobe Photoshop is simply a matter of changing
> the "skin", a trivially easy thing to do... The whole gimp
> user interface is just a little XML code.  Anyone care to
> speculate on how easy it would be to make Adobe Photoshop
> work and look like the Gimp?  Or to make Microsoft Word work
> and look like WordPerfect?  Or for that matter, make Microsoft
> Vista look and work like KDE or Gnome?
> 
> -Chuck Harris

Yes, yes, yes... but how will GIMP/Photoshop/VFSH improve my stability and
accuracy? Except for allowing me to fiddle with the graphs to display better
values than I actually acheive.

Cheers,
Magnus



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