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PSP -v- GIMP

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TonyGroves

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I'm a happy occasional PSP7 user (have Photoshop 5.5 too, but couldn't be bothered, PSP is so much easier), but now that I'm looking at moving from Windows to Linux, PSP (and Photoshop) might have to go. The obvious alternative is Gimp (cost: 0, works on both OS's), and it seems to have a great reputation.

Question: Has anybody out there tried Gimp, and what do they think?
 
Tried it. Got it loaded on my PC at work (cos I have no budget for graphics apps). Hate it.

I suppose the interface must make sense to Linux-heads (I'm assuming that it must make sense to somebody), but I found it impossible to get the hang of. Fortunately I only needed to create some simple, blocky graphics for a web page - but even that took a lot of scratching around. I'd hate to use it for anything complicated.

Like a lot of Open Sores software (nicked that term from today!) it seems aimed at people who like to tinker around endlessly with their software to see how it works. If you want something you can just pick up and use out of the box, stick to commercial software (mind you, PSP was shareware once... )

Heck, it's free. Go to , see if you can figure out which files to download and how to install them, then try it out. You'll soon be feeling nostalgic about Windows Paintbrush!

Of course you'd probably get a different view at forum451 .

-- Chris Hunt
 
I've started playing with Gimp on my test Linux machine, and it doesn't seem too bad at all. It looks unusual, not as friendly as PSP, aimed at pros rather than casual users like me, but I'd say the same things about Photoshop. If I do change over, I'll miss PSP, but from what I've seen so far, Gimp should be a reasonable replacement. (Though I'll have to look elsewhere for vector drawing).
 
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