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Gimp - Opinions Wanted
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Nashville, TN
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how does this compare to photoshop? is it user friendly? i need to make a simple flyer for a friend, just got a new macbook and none of my old adobe apps work with leopard or intel macs they are ooooooold.
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"
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I think it's very good for simpler work, but why don't you try it? Along with GimpShop, the front end that feels more like photoshop?
It's free, after all.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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 i plan to when i get home, stuck at work on a windoze box which i can't install anything on.
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: London, UK
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It isn't the friendliest UI by any means, but if you learnt to find your way around Photoshop, then it shouldn't be a problem. However, the menu layout is odd cf. Photoshop and will take some getting used to (and relative to any other OS X apps - it is an X11 app rather than designed for OS X... btw, gimpshop just puts a more Mac-like theme on top, but the underlying UI is the same). Personally, if you have e.g. Pages, I would use that instead.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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I don't like GIMP. It was fine on Mac, I had really bad experiences on Windows for sure.
I don't really like it on either platform though. Too hard to use. Slow. Sluggish. Bad interface.
Here's using Adobe Fireworks CS3 (been using it since LONG before Adobe took it over).
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15" MacBook Pro (unibody), 4 GB RAM, 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X 10.6.2
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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I use Gimp a lot and I like it. I don't love it (it could be a lot better), but it meets my needs. This seems to be the best-maintained build for OS X right now.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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If your friend plans to take the file to a printer, forget GIMP.
But for web and home printer use, it'll do the trick.
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Well that depends entirely on the type of printer.
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