Destro Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Hey everyone! After looking through the march 09 desktop subject (which was awesome) I have decided to try and make my own desktop picture. At the moment I can not afford photoshop, but I was wondering if there is a similar program that is free. I have tried gimp, but would rather something more to the photoshop "feel". I am running OSX. Please feel free to post any advice or tips for photo editing and programs (if there are any)! cheers, Destro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Seashore? http://seashore.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&saf...mac&spell=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0p Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 There's always the GIMP even though I really hate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBP Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 photoshop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 The GIMP is perfectly capable of doing stuff. The interface is just completely different to Photoshop. Things I created using the GIMP (and my lack of artistic skills): OS X rip off: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Gimp is certainly no Photoshop and shouldn't be considered as such, but for a free image editor its perfectly fine for what you want to do. I think you can get an addon which makes it work in a similar fashion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor512 Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Gimp is certainly no Photoshop and shouldn't be considered as such, but for a free image editor its perfectly fine for what you want to do. I think you can get an addon which makes it work in a similar fashion. gimp would be better if they could just make a UI thats not confusing photoshop keeps everything in the proper places gimp is just disorganized http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/ photoshop is mainly better organized for quick efficient usage http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1397/42642111.jpg CS3 has a better UI than CS4, cs4 forces all work spaces to be tabbed this makes dragging a dropping layers from 1 image to another hard because the 1 step process from cs3 has been turned into a 5 step process in cs4 many of the basic things that you can do in photoshop can also be done in gimp, it is just harder because of the unintuitive UI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoaliendog Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 First of all GIMP is an open source project. If you don't like it -- if you find it frustrating to use, let developers know. They're actively trying to make it a better program. Second, you might want to check out Inkscape, Or if you want to get your web 2.0 on, try Pixlr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 They already know what the problem is, they are trying to clone photoshop and not make GIMP a image editor in its own right. Photoshop is still a far better product as its industry standard and supports stuff GIMP doesn't (32bit color per channel for instance). Cinepaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/) is actually used proffesionally however, and would be better than GIMP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoaliendog Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 They already know what the problem is, they are trying to clone photoshop and not make GIMP a image editor in its own right. Photoshop is still a far better product as its industry standard and supports stuff GIMP doesn't (32bit color per channel for instance). Cinepaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/) is actually used proffesionally however, and would be better than GIMP. I'm not arguing with anyone, but I read the mailing lists. People point out problems that no one noticed before, all the time. The back-end of GIMP (GEGL) has support for 32 bits per channel, and there is a patch in the works to support white balance on high bit depth images. Its a matter of not having enough developers. I use GIMP professionally, it can produce professional results. I hope people would spend their time constructively, and make GIMP better instead of bashing it constantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 I was incorrent, its changed since I last looked at it then, I remember a year or so back having great difficulty with GIMP. I will have to give it another try. Out of interest what level of the industry do you work at? I did a degree in photography myself and at the time, GIMP just wasn't up to the standard of Adobe's offerings. I'm not saying it can't be used proffesionally, I know a lot of SFX houses use linux for various tasks as the can mash it up anyway required. What i am saying is Photoshop is an industry standard, and makes a better product that GIMP (this is an issue that plauges the commerical applications of linux and its ilk.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoaliendog Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I was incorrent, its changed since I last looked at it then, I remember a year or so back having great difficulty with GIMP. I will have to give it another try. Out of interest what level of the industry do you work at? I did a degree in photography myself and at the time, GIMP just wasn't up to the standard of Adobe's offerings. I'm not saying it can't be used proffesionally, I know a lot of SFX houses use linux for various tasks as the can mash it up anyway required. What i am saying is Photoshop is an industry standard, and makes a better product that GIMP (this is an issue that plauges the commerical applications of linux and its ilk.) I do freelance Web Design / Development. I mostly use Inkscape for design, and GIMP for post processing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Paint.Net Gimp Wink - Good for annotating screen shots/pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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