Comments on: Gimp vs Photoshop

By: Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:57:52 +0000

I really don’t know much about either one. I do like photoshop better though except for the price. Well, if you can’t afford it then there’s only one other way to get it isn’t there? Sneak it from a friend and then sneak it back or pirate it. I hear that Photoshop is the most pirated program in the world. I can see why.

By: Kel

Kel — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:30:29 +0000

Why do so many people incorrectly assume “geeks” can’t be creative. I worked in an office where just about every programmer was proficient in the creative arts; from DJ’s, musicians and hip-hop samplers to engineers and songwriters (all of whom are highly skilled programmers).

I don’t like the lock down on the patents since it blocks development and advancement of technology. There are a few things I would like to improve in software but can’t develop them since I will need a team, and will get little [public] support if I want to implement areas that are [unfairly] patented

By: Wuuaarm

Wuuaarm — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:08:57 +0000

Maybe the Gimp isn’t crap – but it feels like crap. Really, I can’t stand it. Photoshop for Unix would be awesome.

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:48:12 +0000

I think photoshop sucks. GIMP is as powerful as it gets–what people don’t like is that it gives them “too much” power. With photoshop, it does lots of stuff for them in a strict environment, whilst GIMP is more relaxed and freer–however, that is why photoshop-users hate it.

Why pay $600+ for photoshop and have it be frustrating and overbearing while you can get a more flexible, professional Gnu Image Manipulation Program for free? Because you want to follow the crowd and like anything Microsoft.

By: rhodan

rhodan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:14:24 +0000

I use both. Photoshop on win and gimp on linux and windoze.
I dont think the $600 is the biggest show stopper. If you want to switch to Linux, you can’t run Photoshop properly. Not in Wine and not in a vBox.

Make Photoshop for Linux (it’s been there already for Mac for years) and then these discussions will disappear.
If I need to do professional image manipulation, photoshop is the way to go. Now it needs to run on Linux too. I’d buy it today.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:53:49 +0000

Well, I see it as being one of those “It depends on who u are” sorta debates. A lot of Opinions, & what works best for someone that doesnt work as well with another.
I wanted Photoshop, to use in my anime & other drawings, but at $600…I just cannot afford it. & I probably wont pirate it either.
So its come down to Gimp or Paint.net & Im just gonna try them both & see how it goes.
I dont have anything against any of them, never used Photoshop or Paint.net…but I had gimp once before, but it was a while ago.
Anyways, I’ll just try them & see. Im not used to any certain interface, so…maybe that makes a difference here also.

By: Honour Chick

Honour Chick — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:38:49 +0000

photoshop 4 life

By: Fracker

Fracker — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:00:48 +0000

funny how photoshop burns a ton of memory and runs like a pig but the gimp has none of these problems.

By: graphicartist2k5

graphicartist2k5 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:16:00 +0000

As far as I know, the whole “photoshop is gay” defense doesn’t work. And as far as I know, most design professionals don’t use the gimp. And, furthermore, as far as I know, when I took graphic design courses in college, I wasn’t taught about how to use the gimp. This could be because the gimp is weak as hell compared to Photoshop. I know, I know, “The gimp has gotten better”, but what the hell is the point in how good the gimp has gotten, when Photoshop has already left it in the dust? I am currently using Photoshop CS2 on a laptop that has a Pentium 3 processor with 256 mb of ram installed. I tried to use the gimp, but guess what? The gimp didn’t work for CRAP on my laptop. Isn’t it funny that I can run Photoshop with only 256 mb of ram and with a Pentium 3 processor, but the gimp won’t work for crap? I think it’s quite funny.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:36:26 +0000

The latest Gimp seems to be a real step up, especially in the area of User Interface. Some complain that it is a waste of time making the UI more like Photoshop, but the fact is it is more usable now. I find my workflow very smooth using Gimp. I am a web designer so the limitations for print-media dont apply, but I would definately recommend Gimp to anyone. I can’t see the point of paying all that money, unless you really need certain features or you are earning enough that it doesn’t matter.

By: yoyographics

yoyographics — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:20:19 +0000

This was an entertaining little stop on the net. My favorite part of the article…
Unlike other professions which happen to take place on a computer, graphics artists are almost never geeks. Geeks explore an interface, practice with it, read the manual on it, and when they discover the scripting language buried within (Gimp has scheme), they’re bowled over at how cool it is. Graphics artists aren’t like that. They’re right-brained all the way; they’re here to draw, not write programs. And when they learn one way to make the computer do what they want, that’s a sacrifice of time which they can never again be asked to do. Learning a new interface is painful for anybody, but it seems to be simply unacceptable for the graphics artist. ____________________________ Abso-freakin-lutely right on man. Never were truer words spoken. I seriously had to talk myself into the switch from Quark to InDesign for like a Year! And only after i got real damn sick of the then-new OsX screwing with my time. Truly I am not even interested in GIMP. I only searched for it because a geek i know told me to. (graphic artists do tend to rub virtual elbows with geeks a lot)

By: gingie

gingie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:42:48 +0000

@xerokill

Font anti-aliasing is in the main gimp menu box, dude… below all the icons. Right in front of you

@everyone
As someone mentioned before, It’s unfair because almost everyone starts out with PS. Not me though. I’ve used GIMP for two years and now I have access through a Media class at my school. It’s like vice-versa of everyone’s general opinion… I am so used to GIMP(and it’s really NOT that hard at all, the UI…) and now, finally using Photoshop I can’t find my way around the menus. I’m trying to learn them, but everything I see in PS I say, “Wow, GIMP does that a lot easier.” Except for the layer Styles which I’ve discovered is a GREAT timesaver. Anyway, that’s the story from a different perspective. My 2 cents.

Oh, and I was WAITING for someone to say that Paint.NET is NOT a MS product.. so don’t be prejudiced!

By: xer0kill

xer0kill — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:11:28 +0000

I’m pretty let down by Gimp ATM. I do believe Photoshop has more advantages than just the UI and print media capabilities. It has more features, including a ton more filters, and Layer Styles which is a HUGE time saver for playing around to get the right look. Also in Gimp, I can’t even find options to adjust the Font Anti-aliasing. WTF? That’s a pretty major thing, especially since the default settings look pretty poopy if you ask me. The apparent inability of Gimp to link layers also wastes a bunch of time, forcing me to move stuff one layer at a time. Also I’ve noticed sometimes hotkeys don’t work, I press ctrl+shift+a a million times and it won’t “select none”. So, again, I’m wasting time by having to go up to the menu to click “select none” manually. These are some of the ass pains I’ve been experiencing just today.

By: SparroHawc

SparroHawc — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:28:58 +0000

PAINT.NET is NOT a Microsoft product! It had some sponsoring from M$ and apparently a bit of coaching, but the work was (if I recall correctly) done initially by students at Washington State University. It started as a student project and has continued on to become something rather larger than that. So please, PLEASE stop saying ‘It’s alright but it’s made by Microsoft’ – that’s an utter falsehood. The only thing Microsoft about it is that it happens to be written for Windows.

By: wannabegeek

wannabegeek — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:53:35 +0000

the new version of gimp came out, 2.4

it added many more features and now I’d say its an equal to or better than PS.

I will use Photoshop when I need the advanced brush settings but GIMP is the way to go for anything else.