The Gimp

Postby **Zar** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:18 am

I was recently heard about this photo editing program called Gimp and its supposed to do almost everything photoshop does but its free. But one thing about you have to download so much different stuff it so confusing. Is there anyone here who uses it

Postby **TurkishMonky** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:23 am

it does almost everything that photoshop does, but you have to learn it first (with a steep learning curve). It didn't seem that cunfusing for me to install. Are you getting it for nix or windows?

Postby **Zar** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:24 am

Postby **TurkishMonky** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:29 am

Well, i'm not a mac user, but it looks like all you need is the first link on
http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/
as long as you have X11

Postby **kryptech** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:39 am

I absolutely *luv* the GIMP! I've spent hours and hours and hours with it, both for graphic design for work and also for my own personal drawings. It is very powerful but yes, a little hard to get into at first. It has a host of keyboard shortcuts and once you do learn them you can work very quickly. I am running Win XP so I can't help you on the Mac versions...

Postby **Mr. Rogers** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:30 am

I use the GIMP alot because I can't afford any version of Photoshop. XD;; It's good, I like it. It is harder to use though. But you could figure it out.

Postby **shooraijin** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:54 pm

If you have Panther (or you'll be getting Tiger), you have X11. It comes with 10.3 and later. For Jaguar, you'd have to find a copy of the X11 Beta SDK which Apple doesn't seem to offer anymore.

With that, GIMP should "just work". That .dmg looks like the right one to me.

Postby **blkmage** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:25 pm

I use the GIMP whenever I can because it's a pain to open up VMWare just for Photoshop.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:39 pm

the gimp is very nice indeed, just make sure some other programs your running wont mess it up (i think stylexp's fonts mess up the gimp for me) <--my pc, not my mac, my mac works winders with the gimp

Postby **Mithrandir** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:45 am

Huh. I've never heard of incompatibilites with it (I'll admit up front I've done zero research on the topic). I have, however, used it extensiively with a certain project I'm working on, and I have to say I'm very impressed. I DO wish I could get X11 to automagically select whatever window I mouse over. It's really annoying to have to "click" to each window.

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