Has anyone used both the GIMP (latest version) and Photoshop? If so, do you think Photoshop is worth the money? My parents teach at a university so they could get it at a discount, but I'm not sure if it's really that much better then the GIMP. I do mainly Harry Potter/Narnia/Series of Unfortuante Events wallpapers, layouts, and other types of fan media.
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| pevensie wrote: |
Has anyone used both the GIMP (latest version) and Photoshop? If so, do you think Photoshop is worth the money? My parents teach at a university so they could get it at a discount, but I'm not sure if it's really that much better then the GIMP. I do mainly Harry Potter/Narnia/Series of Unfortuante Events wallpapers, layouts, and other types of fan media.
(hope this is the right forum!) |
I'm not nearly as good with gimp (yet), but from what I've seen/heard, it's just as good, especially considering the price difference.
One thing I'm not quite sure about is creating animated gif's in gimp. I know it can be done, but I really like the interface in psPhotoshop really is better and easier, but that dosn't make it worth an inordinate sum of money.
My suggestion: bootleg an older version of photoshop that they don't really sell anymore.
If you don't want to do that, then just stick with the Gimp.
yeah, i was a hardcore GIMP user for a while. I've since switched to photoshop though. It is worth the money...but you need a good amount of RAM, because it takes up ALOT. Now i use Photoshop and GIMP in combonation, because with those two programs it's freaking awesome. PS has a lot more effects and filters and stuff you can do. In my opinion, GIMP is a bit under photoshop. But just a bit. If you have the money to use PS, do it. But if you'd rather stick with a free and decent program, GIMP is your buddy.
I like Macromedia Fireworks myself....
i've just gotten really comfortable with photoshop elements (i got it for $50 after mail-in rebate several years back) but now that I am preparing to dual-boot gentoo in addition to my existing windows XP partition i started playing around w/ GIMP on knoppix, it seems to be good, though, radically different in interface. i mean its one of those things, if you are used to MS Word and then you switch over to OpenOffice, you are gonna be like WTF!?. but i think I heard about a skin for GIMP that makes it look identical to photoshop, i dont know if i misheard or not though.... good luck with it, it can be quite fun. P.S. in response to the comment about animated gifs, yes I do find it to be quite helpful although from personal experience don't try to make large (many colors such as photos) .gif's in photoshop or they will distort, although i think that is just a physical limitation with the gif format not an issue w/ photoshop.
I'm not aware about GIMP?Where can I get that one? I have photoshop on m y computer and I've been using it for along time now! It's great! I created all my websites through photoshop. And I think, many people are using it over GIMP. Don't you think? 
| myrevolt wrote: |
| i mean its one of those things, if you are used to MS Word and then you switch over to OpenOffice, you are gonna be like WTF!?. but i think I heard about a skin for GIMP that makes it look identical to photoshop, i dont know if i misheard or not though.... |
yeah PS is definitly different that GIMP, you get scared at first, but you just have to do some tutorials.
And your almost 100% correct about the skin. It's not a skin, it's actually a mod thing, called GIMPshop, i tried to install it, but it crashed my program, i did something wrong and never bothered to do it again. Google it and it should be one of the first ones.Yeah, a plus side is that you can open a .PSD (photoshop saved image) in GIMP and save a .PSD, too. It's some pretty good beans. But I'd get PS if I could....
I wouldn't pay for Photoshop. It isn't that much better than GIMP
Umm... as far as I remember, wasn't the Frihost policy not to allow any more X vs Y" threads?
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