thanx a lot to those who made this great software.

I think GIMP is far better than Photoshop because GIMP is free & come packed in just 15 mb

Worst for GIMP are the Photoshop pirates. They could use GIMP and enlarge the user base.

@Rolf, I get what you are saying. Just looking at some of the comments at the blog post I wrote made me realize that those of us versed with using GIMP have to make an effort to bring it mainstream.

I hope GIMP realizes its potential, because my girlfriend does professional graphic design work, and Adobe costs a bloody fortune. But as it stands now, it’s not up to the task of doing professional print work. Does fine for anything specific to the web though, even at a professional level.

And got another friend that likes to take pictures and then improve them using photoshop (mainly) or the sw included with the camera he bought. Everytime we meet he takes piss on me, ‘come on guy, come to the photoshop world…’. or ‘hey man, leave the crappy linux alone, .net and sharepoint are wonderful’ (we are both programmers).
He has not used gimp, he hasn’t even bothered to give it a try… Not that he’s paying a photoshop license, either.

Well, I like photography, and I feel quite comfortable with the gimp. What else could I possibly need? It’s true that it works 8 bit only, and that several operations are to take away some quality and color info from the picture.
But I don’t care. Some day, Gimp will perform ok in these concerns. In the meanwhile, it is enough for a user like me -and also for the average user, imho-.
If anything from me to the developers, I’d just encourage them to keep the good wonderful work.

And for the people that -like my photoshopy friend- that like to talk about things they don’t know, or perhaps feel superior because they are using photoshop (which they have read or heard it’s better)… well it means nothing to me. I choose to use Gimp (and opensource stuff as much as I can). I try to help opensource projects (with donations or with actual work). And I don’t care if other people think there’s no good use for opensource apps. I do know that much open source software -as the gimp- works wonderfully and gives all one needs…

So, welcome version 2.6, and many thanks for the developer team, and for of course to meetthegimp.org that shows us how to get the most of it

Download Gimp 2.6 for Ubuntu 64bit

Last week the new release 2.6 of GIMP came out. Wohooo! There are some major and minor changes and improvements. The interface has changed somewhat, some tools are extended (check the new function of the freehand sel…

I am new user of GIMP and it is wonderful. The new features are very promising. I hope in near future to be able to contribute to GIMP.

I read in other websites from people, who are disappointed about the new version. Maybe there was to much talking about the features to come in one of the next versions, instead of talking about the new features in 2.6. What’s new in this version? I mean, what’s new and you see the difference?

@Rolf: You are right about the uncountable magazins and books about Photoshop. In some videos you hear ten-times “Photoshop” bevor the show has even startet
Well, there is a market and there are a lot of people, who prefere getting their money with their hobby instead of real working. Ich wish, I could do this to

Worst for GIMP are the Photoshop pirates. They could use GIMP and enlarge the user base. This would fuel the market for GIMP books, forums and podcasts. For example, I could make a deal with some photography magazine to include mtg on the monthly CD and write some stuff in there. Some of the money would go into GIMP. Or I could reduce my day job and do more for the GIMP propaganda department.

Instead they fuel a market for countless Photoshop books and magazine articles. Most of the described stuff is possible in GIMP, I have shown here more complex stuff than in most magazines.

And they increase the impression that only Photoshop is capable to do graphics work. Good for Adobe, I wonder how much effort they put into tracking the pirates down.

http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03/photoshop-cs3-on-linux-with-wine.html

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

- buy a Mac and CS
- organize funding for making GIMP better
- write the needed code
- post blog entries and comments about the problem.

Of course I want the best GIMP I can get. Of course I want 16 bit now! (My announcement of packages for 32 bit Ubuntu wasn’t understood everywhere… ) Of course I want adjustment layers.

But I guess Adobe has put more people/hours in designing the box and ad campaign for the new CS than the GIMP developers were able to put into planning, coding and testing.

So I am thankful for what I have got (it’s a lot for free), fire up cinepaint if I need 16 bit and try to help a bit with this podcast.

BTW, there is a donation button on gimp.org ….

Do we need a Professional Photo Editor for Linux?. Yes!

The Windows and Mac OSX community have it. It’s called Photoshop CS4. We don’t have that luxury!. So we need highend features in Gimp and Krita for the Professional Photographer who uses Linux or other Unix variants only.

Sure, Gimp can and will improve, but right now, but instead of being frustrated for whatever feature, look at what we’ve got….
We already have an amazing piece of software, and MTG is doing what it’s take to teach how to use it at it’s full capacity. This is hour challenge. Growing in hour technical and artistic skill come with practice not with talking

Do we need a camera of 5000 euro.
Or is a Canon EOS 400 D enough.
Do we need 24 focus points. Or is less enough.

I don’t need that expensive program.
A legal and for free program as Gimp is enough to me.

Everyone can make pictures.
Many people can make photos and sometimes we do like to improve parts with Gimp.

Be happy. Look and see what they realised.
Lets try to forget what they have to do next if we can’t program.
Lets try to make photos instead of pictures.

I love Gimp

My answer No!.

Kudos to all the programmers doing the hard work for us!!