[NBLUG/talk] The Advantages of Linux

[ME]

>> > doing cut-and-paste with photographs).  Otherwise, it seems that the
>> GIMP
>> > is
>> > at least as powerful as Photoshop.
>
>
> no way.
>
> Photoshop is faster, has better tools, is more polished and works with
> large images very well.
>
> The multi tasking in the gimp is terrible, try saving three images at
> once, I dare you.
>
> The tools aren't quite as good, it's not polished at all, the UI is the
> worst UI ever for a graphic design program.
>
> It chokes on large images.
>
> With that said, the gimp is the best OSS/FSF  program for gnu/linux.
>
> It is however not a replacement for photoshop unless your not a pro with
> graphics.
>
> I once attempted to get a graphic designer I know to switch to the gimp
> and he just about died (and not just from the UI).
>
> The gimp has a long way to go before they can displace adobe.

One feature in the Gimp puts it way ahead of photoshop:

Code Extention. You can built perl scripts to perform various complicated
operations for you. The power of perl and other language to customize
complicated operations on an image just seems to be missing in Photoshop -
you either get what they *think* you should have, or you don't get it.
(Have not tried recent versions of PhotoShop for this, I'm just assuming
things are same as they were before.)

For people who do not want to program, and/or integrate programming into
their Desktop Publishing work, are likely to enjoy the pre-built PhotoShop
interface. For my world, the GIMP is better than PhotoShop, but that comes
from use.

-ME