Comments on: GIMP: Free, Open Source Photo Editing Software for Mac, Windows, Linux

By: meh

meh — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:47:04 +0000

gimpshop is based on the code from GIMP 2.2. Since that, we’ve had GIMP 2.4, 2.6, 2.8 and soon 2.10 is coming. Each of those GIMP versions has had more and more features that make it “photoshop compatible” (reading brushes and psd’s, introducing single-window mode, layer groups and other tools). What do you really want, a program that has the superficial look of photoshop, or a great image editor? If you only want something that looks like photoshop, I suggest you download a screenshot of photoshop, use it as your desktop wallpaper and then you can stare at that while your photo stays unedited. It’ll come out much better than if you use gimpshop. Or you can download the real GIMP and do some real editing.

By: Alex Botten

Alex Botten — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:00:05 +0000

Agreed! I started using it when I couldn’t find a ‘back-up’ version of Photoshop for my MacBook, 6 years later I prefer it to PS

By: Boomer The Dog

Boomer The Dog — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:30:40 +0000

Thanks Mountain, I’ll check it out, and if I can get it for Ubuntu that could get me on Linux for image editing, and it would be cool to have that option.

I make heavy use of the cloning and painting tools, all of the stuff used for photo manipulation, and I’d like to see how those really work woof in Gimp.

Boomer

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:21:45 +0000

Boomer try Gimpshop, its the gimp without the weird window layout. Hated Gimp until I tried gimpshop.

Although my main editor right now for most simple tasks is paint.net, very easy to use and does 90% of what I need to do to photos.

By: Boomer The Dog

Boomer The Dog — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:12:47 +0000

It’s a worthy program. I just never got used to the ‘windowing’, separate windows peppering the screen, taking up space and moving around, different layout on other computers. I’d rather the unified window, big workspace in the middle, with the tools around the outside. That keeps me on Windows for image editing (P.I.), and making my morphic Dog artwork.

In Ubuntu Linux they advanced from X-Sane windowed scanner program to SimpleScan, which to me is so much better of an interface, solid and simple.