[cw-discuss] Photoshop CS3

[Simon Roby]

On Dec 12, 2007 11:36 AM,  <Ash-Fox at quickfox.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 December 2007 08:21:19 Graham wrote:
>
> > Is there something special about Photoshop that is not in The GIMP?
> >
> CYMK color profiles, although I have those in Krita.
>
> Krita is closer to the Windows photoshop interface while the Gimp is closer to
> the OS X photoshop interface.
>
> As for unsupported things in the Gimp it is lacking something major, styled
> layers. For some reason, the Gimp after all these years still does not have
> those implemented.

Yeah, it's really absurb that the Gimp still lacks CYMK and layer
styles after all those years. Sometimes I wonder if the Gimp devs are
actually trying to provide an adequate image manupulation solution.
For the most part they just don't seem to care.

Meanwhile free software advocates recommend the Gimp over Photoshop,
claiming it's "good enough for all your needs" or something like that,
which results in lots of people having a very bad first impression
about free software, because the Gimp is definitely not a suitable
replacement for anyone who does advanced/professional stuff, but
they've been told otherwise. I really hate that...
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- SR