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04/01/2005 04:14:52 AM · #1 |
From Slashdot the news that some enterprising soul has hacked the Gimp to look and behave (as far as possible) like Photoshop. Should cure some of those usability headaches!
Original page and Mac version here.
Linux port here.
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04/01/2005 03:10:58 PM · #2 |
*bump*
This one isn't an April fools btw.
There's UltraSPARC and Slackware builds available too now. Still no word on a Windows build but I'm sure it won't be long.
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04/01/2005 03:18:53 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by bod:
From Slashdot the news that some enterprising soul has hacked the Gimp to look and behave (as far as possible) like Photoshop. Should cure some of those usability headaches! |
Huh? Photoshop has a lousy user interface. Why do you think it is so hard to learn? If anything, making Gimp look like it should be a disadvantage. :)
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04/01/2005 04:09:35 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Originally posted by bod:
From Slashdot the news that some enterprising soul has hacked the Gimp to look and behave (as far as possible) like Photoshop. Should cure some of those usability headaches! |
Huh? Photoshop has a lousy user interface. Why do you think it is so hard to learn? If anything, making Gimp look like it should be a disadvantage. :) |
I don't necessarily think it is so hard to learn, but if you sit your average Photoshop user in front of the normal Gimp interface they'll click around for a few minutes then go back to Photoshop because nothing's where they're used to it being.
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04/01/2005 04:58:59 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by bod:
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Originally posted by bod:
From Slashdot the news that some enterprising soul has hacked the Gimp to look and behave (as far as possible) like Photoshop. Should cure some of those usability headaches! |
Huh? Photoshop has a lousy user interface. Why do you think it is so hard to learn? If anything, making Gimp look like it should be a disadvantage. :) |
I don't necessarily think it is so hard to learn... |
Spoken like a true PS user whose already served their megahours of time learning it. I know, I've done the same myself. :)
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04/01/2005 05:02:41 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Spoken like a true PS user whose already served their megahours of time learning it. I know, I've done the same myself. :) |
And Gimp is any better? I'm not saying Photoshop is good, but it's certainly no worse than Gimp. |
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04/01/2005 05:02:58 PM · #7 |
wow i wish they would have done that before i got CS i might not have got it .........
Leon
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04/01/2005 05:11:08 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by LEONJR:
wow i wish they would have done that before i got CS i might not have got it .........
Leon |
Reading the replies to that post, it doesn't appear they've come up with a reliable Windows distributable yet. So, unless you are Mac or Linux, I wouldn't worry about it. |
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04/01/2005 05:28:05 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Spoken like a true PS user whose already served their megahours of time learning it. I know, I've done the same myself. :) |
Megahours learning how to do the nearly the same thing to every photo anyway. I suck at PS : )
This year I aim to move my processing to the Gimp. I have a Windows box which does *nothing* but run PS (yet still falls over on a regular basis lol). Bibble has let me move the RAW conversion away from that box already.
The biggest obstacle is that because I suck at PS, I rely on a lot of actions and plugins to do things for me. Gimping all that is the bit I'm not looking forward to.
Originally posted by bledford:
And Gimp is any better? I'm not saying Photoshop is good, but it's certainly no worse than Gimp. |
Yup, they both have "issues".
My ideal interface would consist of just a "Make this photo look good" button.
Originally posted by bledford:
Reading the replies to that post, it doesn't appear they've come up with a reliable Windows distributable yet. So, unless you are Mac or Linux, I wouldn't worry about it. |
Reading my second post would tell you the same : )
There's a difference between "haven't yet" and "aren't going to" though. People have started working on it. Not their fault that Windows is so difficult to port to :D
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