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anyone using this? www.gimp.org  and yes, I have CS2. Just curious if people here have something to say about it, good, bad or indifferent. im not about to pummel this nice new mac with crap. Best, Stu www.stuartphotography.com Jul 11 05 10:46 pm Link a friend of mine swears by it.. personally i like CS2 but thats just me.. give it a whirl.. Jul 11 05 10:51 pm Link Don't have it now but I have used it. Liked it alot. I have CS2 also and for the 'level' of stuff that I do I could have easily stayed with The Gimp. Only thing is I'm shooting with a Canon 350D and the RAW format it uses isn't supported but Gimp I believe. Chris Jul 11 05 10:52 pm Link Photoshop and Gimp were neck and neck for a while... because Adobe engineers loyal to the open source movement were writing open source code and putting it into Photoshop. A stop was put to that, whether fortunately or unfortunately, and Gimp now lags about two years behind in key features. It has always lacked some of the refinement of Photoshop, the ease of use once you know the hotkeys just isn't there. Also, far less support for Gimp tricks and techniques out there. Just my opinion though, last tried it about a year ago. Jul 11 05 11:21 pm Link Last time I checked, GIMP has neither colour management nor 16 bits-per-channel colour support - serious limitations for some, irrelevant for others. Jul 12 05 01:20 am Link Geez, I thought this was going to be a nice thread about shooting differently abled models! Jul 12 05 01:30 am Link Actually I think Gimp has getting better and better every release. I work with psp on a windows based system (yeah - used the windows gimp version too). The only thing I don't like are the gazillion different windows to pop up when using several tools. I'm confused pretty fast - so I headed back to my PSP. Maybe it's all about on which one you started with... Jul 12 05 01:36 am Link cool...thanks for responding. I guess Ill give it a whirl, as I'm even more curious now. I own several copies of PS, but always like to look at other options, or things I can recommend to others who cant just buy photoshop on a whim. Jul 12 05 06:36 am Link Damn, I was hopnig to see the Pulp fiction Gimps Jul 12 05 09:52 am Link I use the Gimp all the time. I try to stay as far away from Windows as possible, so I like open source solutions. There is a 16bit version called cinepaint, which works for simple image manipulations, but lags behind gimp itself. Right now I'm trying to debug color management stuff under Linux. I can view images through a monitor profile using a very different style of image editing program called nip2. I've generated monitor and printer profiles using another open source program called Argyll. I'm printing using photoprint, which handles profiles through a library called lcms, before handing the data off to the printer driver, gutenprint. I don't mind paying money for good software, but I won't give money to Bill Gates for Windows. I'm glad there are alternatives. -eric Jul 12 05 10:55 am Link I tried it out and really wanted to start using it because I'm a huge fan of open source. But, I couldnt get used to the interface. I hate having 40 different windows open and 40 different tabs in the Taskbar. Give me one window and one taskbar tab that holds everything and a few toolbar boxes and I'd be happy  Jul 12 05 11:08 am Link Gimp is just for all the Unix geeks on Slashdot. Jul 12 05 01:13 pm Link I know it is an image editing program, but every time I hear the name Gimp I think of the baker from "Flowers For Algernon," Gimpy. Good book. Jul 12 05 01:20 pm Link Posted by XtremeArtists: Guilty as charged. Jul 12 05 01:31 pm Link this is the first time i have ever heard of Gimp... looks powerful enough, but the amount of windows open is a huge turnoff. photoshop pretty much remains industry standard in my opinion. when saving a gimp file with layers intact... what extension is created? Jul 12 05 01:34 pm Link If you don't care about color management, it might do. One open source imaging toolset I use a lot are the "netpbm" tools. They're a bunch of command-line programs that do format conversion, crop, rotate, whatever, in a pipeline so you can script them. I'm still enough of a UNIX geek that when I want to do something to 4,000 files I don't write a photoshop action, I write a shell script on my server and let it run. I have an automated job on my server that makes thumnail databases every night of all the JPGs on my RAID array; photoshop's file browser is a lot faster at making thumbnails when the files are already thumbnail-sized.  mjr. Jul 12 05 01:37 pm Link Posted by Eric Messick: Posted by XtremeArtists: Guilty as charged. I for one welcome our Unix geek overloards. Jul 12 05 01:54 pm Link Posted by ClevelandSlim: Gimp can read and write .psd files, but it has it's own format as well for saving layers and all of the internal data. Jul 12 05 02:37 pm Link Posted by Eric Messick: Posted by ClevelandSlim: Gimp can read and write .psd files, but it has it's own format as well for saving layers and all of the internal data. PS basically uses the interface that was developed for MacPaint in 1984. That program invented the crawling ants to indicate a selection for example. After 20 years of evolution, it's going to be hard to find a better one. Jul 12 05 02:49 pm Link glad to see this thread still alive. I too am a Unix bred geek, and am big on open source tools (more for infosec than graphics)...and again, heavy on the PS.... this is apples and oranges when talking about COST. Jul 12 05 03:14 pm Link Zed's dead, Baby. 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