[cw-discuss] Photoshop CS3

[Graham]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:17:56 +0000
Ash-Fox at quickfox.org wrote:

> I am happy with the Gimp, as are others. But some people really
> require some of Photoshop's features which the Gimp does not have at
> this moment in time. It won't change anything to say it's 'coming
> soon', it's been 'coming soon' for years.
[snipped]

If they "really need them" then they should run an operating system
that supports Photoshop and be prepared to pay the price for it.  It
seems to me to people using Crossover to run PS are not requiring the
facilities in PS very often - or at all.  If those people persist in
running another operating system than Windows and still wish to have PS,
they are presumably running the operating system because it has
something about it that is more appealling than Windows and for that
reason they may not be able to run a Windows application.

I'll admit that I don't really need anything that is not in The Gimp
already, but even then someone somewhere has written a plugin to
accommodate the only major facility that is absent from The Gimp over
PS.  To accommodate new features, the developers of The Gimp subtly
altered the code base in versions 2.2 to 2.4 (I understand).

However, I'm not convinced that going to a non-native application (even
with Crossover) when there is a native application available to do most
of the same thing, is worth CW developers spending time over.

I originally bought Crossover Office so I could use Word on my Linux
box.  For some strange reason, the authorities at the University which
I attend REQUIRE that an electronic copy of any of my assignments is
received in Word format.  Unfortunately, OpenOffice and AbiWord do not
format footnotes with the same formatting that is provided in Word.
Originally, I had a PC that was not connected to the internet which ran
Windows just so I could run Office.  When the PC broke down, I went to
Crossover Office.  Since then I have found out that a PowerMac G4
running OSX Tiger will run Word and Photoshop and The Gimp and Abiword
side by side quite happily with no need for Crossover.

Perhaps that's the alternative route which many critics of The Gimp
might wish to follow....

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Graham Todd