As follow-up to my rant over how Gimp vs Photoshop is a stupid flamewar, I’d like to take a post to link to some other free software graphics programs besides Gimp. So many people who go looking for an alternative to Adobe’s expensive creative suite are directed to Gimp, and yet Gimp is only the [...]

1. It’s gone on long enough. A Google search for “Gimp vs Photoshop” in quotes currently shows 23,400 hits. I’ve been seeing it since the turn of the century. Much more often than I’ve seen the canonical geek flamewars of Emacs-vs-vi, Gnome-vs-KDE, and all. 2. The Gimp development team says that Gimp has nothing to [...]

Here, I’ll start with a new file at 600×200. Hit Ctrl-L to open the layers dialog and add a new transparent layer over the white background. From the menu you get from right-clicking on the image, select Image->Guides->New Guide (by percent). Do this twice, with a guide at 50% for both horizontal and vertical so [...]