Thread: Photoshop-type programs for poor souls...

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Okay, I feel extremely frustrated at not having a program like that to be able to make my own sig or help out with the lucid task of the month badges... is there something out there that is free that is about as good as Photoshop?

www.GIMP.org

or www.serifsoft.com <- Photoplus 6 is free

Can someone do as much with those as with Photoshop?

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Can someone do as much with those as with Photoshop?

Yea, GIMP, IMO, is better than photoshop.

Okay cool, thank you Seisie!!

The Gimp lacks some of the advanced reprographics features found in photoshop
colour spaces for large printers (poster printing)
support for commercial graphics tablets
few other bits 'n bobs
but short of being a professional artist, you wouldn't use any of the missing features anyway

and the gimp has one thing photoshop doesn't have
Script-fu

I used Gimp for a long time before I got Photoshop. I haven't found anything that Photoshop could do that Gimp can't. The only reason I use Photoshop now is because I got it free from my university and I don't like having to use the X11 window engine, but in Windows (I assume that's what you are using,) that doesn't matter.

I also think that the Photoshop environment is a little cleaner than Gimp. Does anybody else feel that Gimp is kind of cluttered?

Alright my mission is to learn as much about Gimp in the next few hours as possible. Just downloaded it - needless to say looks a bit confusing for a first timer.

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

the GIMPLite Quickies will get you used to the most common tools