Comments on: GIMP – Raster Graphics Editor

By: reviewsaurus

reviewsaurus — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:59:37 +0000

Gimp is indeed one of the best freeware and one of the best alternative to photoshop. There are quite a few graphics software, which give good competition to Photoshop and Gimp is one of them. having an open source application doing wonders is always makes me feel proud of all those dedicated programmers!

By: Vyoma

Vyoma — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:18:34 +0000

@mik, sorry, I missed you there.

Yes, they have remained in limbo – as in there are not much developments.

But I think, that is not of much issue when it comes to digital painting and basic image manipulaiton (I do not work on photo manipulation or web designing to that extent). It is not that much of an issue because, there is no need for it. Both Photoshop and GIMP are good tools to do digital painting with their custom brush setups. They basically emulate traditional painting.

Now, would you say, there is not developments in traditional painting? If there is development, then these digital coutnerparts would follow.

But may be, in terms of web designing and photo-manipulation – you are right.

And in terms of specialization – I think they should not be doing that. There are specialization softwares for digital painting like Corel Painter X. And as you said, for web deisign, Fireworks and others. There still is a market that needs a little of all of those. Specializing would be loosing a lot of market – for both Photoshop and for GIMP.

By: Vyoma

Vyoma — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:16:28 +0000

One reason it has not taken off is that it is driven by Open Source model. When there are no monetary incentives, development is naturally slower.

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:51:28 +0000

I love GIMP, but I think Photoshop is way better. I wonder why GIMP hasn’t really taken off.

By: mik

mik — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:18:00 +0000

Photoshop and GIMP have remained in limbo for too long I believe. They act as good web design software, photograph manipulation and digital painting. However, they do not specialise in any of these which I feel as though is the down-turn.

Adobe’s requisition of Macromedia should be allowing them to make Photoshop and their other products more specialised to their purpose. Photoshop should be as it’s name suggests, a photography manipulation system. Leave the web design to Fireworks, Illustrator and Freehand.

That aside, GIMP is a very powerful alternative to Photoshop and I think it will suite most people down to a T.

By: Vyoma

Vyoma — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:43:38 +0000

You took the words out of my mouth, benedict. :)

By: benedict herold

benedict herold — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:09:15 +0000

you can stick with GIMP rather than using a pirated copy of Photoshop :-)

By: Vyoma

Vyoma — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:50:22 +0000

Ah well. I cannot afford Adobe Photoshop yet. May be I can, but I still cannot justify the need for me to spend on it.

So, I am sticking to GIMP for now. :)

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:46:13 +0000

Although I used GIMP for quite a while, I like photoshop better than this. The best advantage of GIMP is that its a freeware.