Re: [OS:N:] GIMP vs. Adobe Photoshop

["Marc Maxwell" <mmaxwell mail ucf edu>]

GIMP is amazing.  I am not personally very skilled in it, but I have
read some amazing things in Linux Journal and other magazines.  
Photoshop, to me, is very flat and static compared to GIMP.  When I was
in Ca there was even a GIMP 'movie users LUG' or something like that for
people in the movie industry.  YOu hear about it being used for major
movie edits and stuff like that, which is pretty far out of the basic
user level, but it's nice to know it has such capabilities.  

In my opinion GIMP will do everything that photoshop will do, and GIMP
will also do a lot that photoshop will not do. As with other open source
tools, of course, there's a learning curve, but that is expected with
any worthwhile application.  Maybe the kids can delve into the app and
it will (hopefully) help them to not focus on the old machines.  








Marc Maxwell
Programmer-Analyst
Certified Technical Trainer
Scheduling Team
SDES, Registrar's Office
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida 
407.823.0588

>>> gary frederick jsoft com 9/9/2004 7:43:03 AM >>>
Howdy,

and you should consider getting GIMP for Windows and seeing if it runs
on the machines in the class.

and bring KNOPPIX and see if that runs. If it does, explain it will be
SSLLOOWW because it is running in memory. That tests if the machines
will load k12ltsp without problems and shows GIMP.

Gary

Karl Sarnow wrote:
> Larry D wrote:
> 
>> My daughter has started taking digital photography in high school
this 
>> year. But apparently the digital photography class is at the bottom
of 
>> the food chain as far as computers are concerned. They have an
ancient 
>> version of Adobe photoshop running on 1996 vintage computers. 
>> According to my daughter, the students find this depressing as many
of 
>> them have better stuff on their home computers.
>>
>> I occasionally use the GIMP on my Linux machine but I have never
used 
>> any version of Photoshop. Can any one tell me how the latest GIMP 
>> compares to photoshop? Will it run on 300MHz machines? I will be 
>> talking to the teacher in a few weeks at open house. Perhaps I can 
>> convince her that this is a better alternative than spending scarce

>> resources on new versions of Photoshop.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
> 
> Larry,
>     the latest versiojn of GIMP is like all newer software fatter
than 
> the older ones. You will have problems running later KDE versions 
> running on old machines. I have an old 400MHz AMD machine with
128MByte 
> RAM and it runs SuSE 9.2 _ssllooowww_. As graphics operations are
always 
> CPU demanding, photo manipulation on these machines is no fun. This 
> holds for Photoshop as well as GIMP.
> 
> Anyway I propose your students think of moving to GIMP, saving money
for 
> licenses and invest that in new hardware, which is necessary anyway.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 


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