Image software

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:21:49 -0600, John Turco wrote:

John Navas wrote:

On 16 Feb 2008 23:23:04 GMT, ray wrote in
:

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:10:45 -0800, measekite wrote:

It is not too user friendly. It is a diamond in the rough. It does
not have a good built in browser organizer. I does not seem to
follow standard windows (not MS Windows but windows ) conventions.
It is difficult to use. In Linux the printer dialogs are sort of
convoluted and you really need to spend time and money (print photo
testing) to know what you are doing. The crop tools and layers are
no where as good as Photoshop since you cannot go back and edit a
layer.

I've not used photoshop much, but I find GIMP to be more intuitive to
use - it simply seems to me to be easier to figure out, at least for
basic operations, which is what the OP seemed to be indicating he was
interested in.

My own take is the GIMP interface is much more painful to use than
Photoshop, itself no paragon of ease.

Hello, John:

Damned straight! GIMP is limp, from my personal experience. I much
prefer Paint Shop Pro, which I've been using for the past 10+ years or
so; I'm on version 7, at the moment.

I think that depends somewhat on personal preference and experience
rather than being a general observation. For example, I've determined
that MS is totally lame. As has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread,
the Linux version seems to be rather more intuitive - I find the Linux
version of GIMP to be quite intuitive and certainly easier to use, for
example, than photoshop on MS.



Similarly, folks doing basic editing are probably not going to be
overly concerned about playing with layers.

Layers are extremely useful, even for basic editing.

Never figured out, what the hell "layers" are for, in PSP. That's just
me, being somewhat of a dabbler in these matters, though. g


Cordially,
John Turco

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:21:49 -0600, John Turco
wrote:

John Navas wrote:

On 16 Feb 2008 23:23:04 GMT, ray wrote in
:

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:10:45 -0800, measekite wrote:

It is not too user friendly. It is a diamond in the rough. It does not
have a good built in browser organizer. I does not seem to follow
standard windows (not MS Windows but windows ) conventions. It is
difficult to use. In Linux the printer dialogs are sort of convoluted
and you really need to spend time and money (print photo testing) to
know what you are doing. The crop tools and layers are no where as good
as Photoshop since you cannot go back and edit a layer.

I've not used photoshop much, but I find GIMP to be more intuitive to use
- it simply seems to me to be easier to figure out, at least for basic
operations, which is what the OP seemed to be indicating he was
interested in.

My own take is the GIMP interface is much more painful to use than
Photoshop, itself no paragon of ease.

Hello, John:

Damned straight! GIMP is limp, from my personal experience. I much
prefer Paint Shop Pro, which I've been using for the past 10+ years
or so; I'm on version 7, at the moment.

Similarly, folks doing basic editing are probably not
going to be overly concerned about playing with layers.

Layers are extremely useful, even for basic editing.

Never figured out, what the hell "layers" are for, in PSP. That's
just me, being somewhat of a dabbler in these matters, though. g


Cordially,
John Turco
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ray wrote:

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:21:49 -0600, John Turco wrote:

John Navas wrote:

On 16 Feb 2008 23:23:04 GMT, ray wrote in
:

edited for brevity

I've not used photoshop much, but I find GIMP to be more intuitive to
use - it simply seems to me to be easier to figure out, at least for
basic operations, which is what the OP seemed to be indicating he was
interested in.

My own take is the GIMP interface is much more painful to use than
Photoshop, itself no paragon of ease.

Hello, John:

Damned straight! GIMP is limp, from my personal experience. I much
prefer Paint Shop Pro, which I've been using for the past 10+ years or
so; I'm on version 7, at the moment.

I think that depends somewhat on personal preference and experience
rather than being a general observation. For example, I've determined
that MS is totally lame. As has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread,
the Linux version seems to be rather more intuitive - I find the Linux
version of GIMP to be quite intuitive and certainly easier to use, for
example, than photoshop on MS.

edited

Hello, Ray:

Well, I gave GIMP short trials, on both Windows Millennium and XP, and
found it to be something other than intuitive, to say the very least.


Cordially,
John Turco