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On Monday 04 Oct 2004 00:05, Peter Butterfield wrote:
Hi, Has anyone been using Gimp v2? I use 1.2.3 at present but still much prefer photoshop (I have to go into windows anyway as I can't get the Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 to work under sane or wine yet). If I want to work on an image whilst in Linux, I can only use the Gimp if the scan is 8 bits per channel rather than 16. I have got wine to start up photoshop but with the tools annoyingly occupying all four desktops and always to the front of other apps. So, is Gimp 2 much better; do I have to forgo 16bit; has anyone come across the tools problem (I'm searching the net for this one as well)?
Having used Gimp2 for a while, there are some changes which I can note. Each image window has the menus along the top although you can still get at the menus by right-clicking on the image as of old. There has been some logical sorting out of the menus with layer specific options going into the layer menu. Text handling has improved. I'm sure there are other improvements but none that have proved significant to me so far. The range of filters and operations has stayed much the same. I have no need for more than 8 bits per channel so I can only say that it does not appear to me as if 16bit is supported. In my view, if you need Photoshop then you need it and The Gimp is no replacement. Personally however, I am not a graphics professional and The Gimp fills all my needs. As it is Open Source, there is the added advantage in that I can use it pretty much on any machine that I want to (including those running windows!) without having the annoying difficulty of sorting out licensing problems with 3 figure sums of money. Learning how to use any powerful software application takes a real investment of time and I don't want to feel that investment might be lost in the future. </rant> Tony -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.