Alan Pope wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:26 +0000, Caroline Ford wrote: > >> If you are running with kde libraries installed I'd recommend krita the >> kde bitmap editor as well. >> >> I really think the gimp is being oversold by the community in general. >> It is very badly designed and doesn't do 32 bit colour. The lack of 32 >> bit colour led to the development of cinepaint, and the design problems >> are notorious. I read an online lecture on usability and all the >> examples of bad practice came from the gimp.. >> > > Maybe pimping GIMPshop [0] might be better - albeit not perfect? > > Cheers, > Al. > > [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop > I've not run it but I know it's on the MOTU's to do list - which is on the wiki somewhere. I think it is based on an older version of the gimp - and I'm not sure it's maintained anymore.
I have high expectations for Krita - it seems to be coming on in leaps and bounds. I also love Inkscape - so I'm not saying it's all doom and gloom by any means. (MOTU = Masters of the Universe, the repository which contains programs that aren't in main) Caroline (secretlondon) -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
