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_Depression -> RE: GIMP & PhotoShop (11/23/2010 19:42:51)
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GIMP and Photoshop are two programs that do things similarly but in very different ways. Adobe is known for putting out a more professional product, and there's no debating that fact - Photoshop (especially the CS series) costs money for a reason. It's good. The scripts and processes that Photoshop runs are more powerful than the ones that GIMP runs, and there is arguably a wider variety of good-quality, user generated content.
GIMP, on the other hand, is free and still holds its own against Photoshop. In a lot of ways, GIMP is more difficult to use - changing dpi, navigating menus, and understanding what everything does is arguably harder done in GIMP than PS. But GIMP is still a legitimate image editing software, it works well for those who know how to work it, and there's no way to tell the difference between a GIMP-produced work or a Photoshop-produced one without being explicitly told which program was used.
You want a reason why GIMP is better than Photoshop? You won't find one here. Want a reason why Photoshop is better than GIMP? Same deal. Any "reason" someone gives you is purely subjective, and might mean nothing to you, or you could hold the opposite opinion.
For example, I find it much easier to create a copy of the tag I'm working on and paste it as a new layer in GIMP than PS (with GIMP, it is a simple hotkey; with Photoshop, unless I'm doing it wrong, it's a hotkey plus clicking through one or two dialog boxes). The way layers work in GIMP is easier for me to deal with, and I've never even tried using many of the more "artistic" filters in Photoshop.
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