On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Swapnil <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 03:37 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > Even by a long mile I don't think gimp will match Photoshop. > What made you think so? What's in PS that's not in GIMP? We use GIMP for > all of our graphics. Please state the reasons. > > IMHO the difference between GIMP and Photoshop is just the difference between Linux and Windows. Geeks will use GIMP and an non geek graphics artists who either can afford to buy or don't care about copyrights will use Photoshop. Regarding features though, most people like an app to come with all the features along with it, which Photoshop does. You cannot expect an average graphics user to search the internet to download and install plug in's for GIMP the geeky way. You can also compare it to MS Office / OpenOffice.org, CorelDRAW / InkScape. People in the graphics industry will only want a .psd file like the corporate world will only want a .doc file... People in the printing industry will demand a Coredraw file only. I personally use GIMP in both Linux and Windows for both simple and complicated graphics work and it's just fine. But I must add that I have seen my uncle who is a pro graphics artist use Photshop. Unlike Linux and Windows, GIMP has to play catch up to Photoshop any day. Arun _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
