[olug] Fwd: [Announcements] CrossOver for free on Wednesday,

[Jay Bendon]

i am borderline retarded when it comes to using photoshop.

Which means if i roll my face on my keyboard, i get about the same results
in GIMP as if i were trying to actually be productive with GIMP.

could use a UI overhaul is understatement.  A UI overhaul should be a top
priority.  It stops people like me from using it at all.  I can use paint
like a bawse though.
--Jay


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Sheldon, Roger W <
Roger.Sheldon at firstdata.com> wrote:

> For a guy like me all that jazz you mentioned bout "context aware fill"
> (WHAT DA HECK?) or lack of image stacking or something alignment with a
> mask is .... well it's just a shame. I guess heck I dunno what yer talkin
> bout here. But Gimp does everything a full time home jockey like me.
> Meeting deadlines is not a prob for me.... sorry late gotta run
>
>
>
> Roger Sheldon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Obi-Wan
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 4:14 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Re: [olug] Fwd: [Announcements] CrossOver for free on Wednesday,
>
> > The Gimp has 95% of the features and tools of Photoshop. If you're
> > used to Photoshop, there is a learning curve with The Gimp. The big
> > deal-breaker for some is a lack of CMYK support, but I wouldn't say
> > The Gimp is laughable in comparisons to Photoshop for most users.
>
> Nobody outside the press printing industry uses CMYK any more, so that's
> less of a problem than it used to be.
>
> I'm more familiar with GIMP, but I'm well aware of both the feature set
> and the 3rd party plugin support that PS enjoys.  Even as a GIMP user for
> over 15 years, I find the GUI unintuitive.  Not so with PS.
>
> Groundbreaking features like context-aware fill are things that GIMP is
> unlikely to get in the forseeable future.  GIMP's lack of a usable method
> for image stacking, alignment, and mask creation is also painful.
> PS' multi-image batch processing is pretty slick, while GIMP's requires
> writing what appears to be Lisp code.  Hello?  And don't even get me
> started on PS' integration with other software & third party plugins.
>
> Yeah, I think "laughable" is an accurate term.  GIMP gets me by as a part
> time photographer, but it's way too restrictive for a full-timer who has
> deadlines to meet.
>
> --
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