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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Saturday, July 27, 2002 12:53:42 am | by PhilMurray | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Friday, July 26, 2002 11:28:26 pm | by GreigMcGill | Revert |
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What MicrosoftWindows users call their version of TheGimp. ;)
Seriously though, it is WellUsedRhetoric that PhotoShop is far superior to TheGimp.
Can some knowledgeable graphics person who is v. familiar with both packages please explain why this is so?
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+PhotoShop is superior because:
+* Better support for commercial printing (ie, supports different printer colorspaces and white temperatures)
+* It's interface is less clumsy than [TheGimp]s retarded RightClick interface
+* Layers implementation is more intuitive and flexible
+* Very good path support
+* Adjustable color reproduction
+* Better brush support
+* Better support for tablets like Wacom, or Aiptek (__very__ important for artists)
+* PDF import/export support, this is important as almost ALL printers/design houses/magazines/publications only accept material in PDF format. PhotoShop also gets the reproduction right.
+* Integrates with AdobeIllustrator (when working with illustrators, or scaleable vector graphics)
+* Better filter (and 3rd party filter) support
+* Way better text support (although, TheGimp is very slowly getting better at this)
+* Comes with ImageReady for making animated gifs and the likes, much much easier/cleaner/quicker than making animated gifs in TheGimp
+* Processing speed
+* Supports hardware Gamut
+* History and Actions
+* Much better optimized GIF output support, much smaller file sizes and color reproduction at small palette sizes.
+* "Save for web" feature, I use this at least ten times a day and can't live without it
+* Slices
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+(Remove the above as TheGimp gets better)
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+TheGimp is superior because:
+* ScriptFu (write your own filters)
+* It's OpenSource
+* Huge range of export/import filters, however misses some more commercial formats that PhotoShop doesn't.
+* Supports 24-bit w/ Alpha channel [PNG]s properly, PhotoShop had some issues with these prior to version 7.
