On 02/02/07, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 21:53 +0000, Benjamin Webb wrote: > > > > Are there any OS graphics programmes? one of my students was asking. > > There is a Gimp users group - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I get the impression that, in most respects, Gimp is equivalent to > Photoshop. I use Gimp for procesing digital photographs.
It depends (as with all things) what you do with it. For processing digital photographs as you do Photoshop would be overkill and so Gimp is perfectly adequate. For more complex design (e.g. web/print design) Gimp is a nightmare. The Gimp's vector graphics are extremely limited (versus some good mix in Photoshop) especially when it comes to shapes. For example, try drawing a shaded curved-edged box in the Gimp - as far as I can tell it is impossible (although I may be missing some tricks). In Photoshop there is a tool. Photoshop text transformation etc. is much more powerful, including writing text along a path (vector stuff again) multiple font's, colours, etc. in a text block. To create multi-coloured text in the Gimp you literally have to do a letter at a time. I would love to see a Photoshop equivalent on Linux but unfortunately the Gimp isn't it - and doesn't look to be heading in that direction over the past 5 years I've been using it. Maybe Adobe will port? ......and cut the price by 99%! Martin -- Edinburgh, UK http://www.mutube.com -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
