Ps is THE industry standard for now and until holes that I wish photographers would hold Adobe's feet to the fire over a bit more. GIMP's open development model means that it is much more readily available on more operating systems, plugin development is not limited by developers and as such has no need to compete with Photoshop by comparison, access to Adobe Photoshop's SDK requires authorization. It's not commercially developed, and so it's not a commercial competitor, and likely never will be. Photoshop CS2 loads slower than GIMP because its a more knowledgable people around me that can help with Photoshop vs Gimp.Photoshop is the most known photographic editing software, but it isn’t for everyone.If you compare the number of features, Photoshop.
Especially when you differentiate between professional photographers who get paid large amounts of money and those who shoot as a hobby. PS's jpeg codec is, put bluntly, just awful. But, there are great Photoshop alternatives!Here, we look at the advantages and disadvantages of GIMP vs ted Reading Time: 6 mins.
But, as I said, I like it and it is most certainly not a mistake making the effort to learn how to use it.GIMP is not Photoshop, and it doesn't really try to compete with Photoshop. I'm not an expert, and my usage is fairly specific to my own needs. I will be happy to assist/advise if you have any GIMP issues. I used to have a subscription to Photoshop - and liked the program - but was able to get GIMP to do most of what I needed to do when my (work) subscription ran out.
I'm not claiming it's the absolute best image editing tool out there, full-stop - but it is most certainly the best free one I'm aware of. However, if you are used to Photoshop, GIMPshop is a modification of GIMP. I would learn how to use layers first, as these are the most powerful editing tool. I then moved up to CS6 and in the summer of 2016 I switched to Photoshop CC. If you desire a 16-bit Raw workflow, Corel Aftershot is probably the best low-cost alternative, not CS2.
I think Photoshop CS2 ran better on a Mac than on Windows XP, but since you downloaded GIMP, I assume you dont have Mac. Like any tool, you benefit if you put in the effort to learn how to use it properly. Moreover GIMP is better than CS2 for editing out-of-camera JPEG because it provides superior JPEG (re)encodings. There are few things I can't do with GIMP that I could do with photoshop. The latest versions do support a tabbed "single window" interface, so the complaint about multiple windows is incorrect. I am happy to use it for all my image editing tasks. I am a long-time (>10 years) user of GIMP. But I'd guess that thisĬomplexity is the nature of the things and not of the tool. Lectures about print and media technology. Transparency and things like that where I think I should visit some Then there is the issue of alpha channels for Problems I get if I want to overlay things and use multilayer and The typical things like changing perspective, changing resolution andĬanvas size, getting rid of shadows are quite straight forward.
Therefor I never thought about anything else. There are plenty of answers and examples which usually gives quick or at Like Joe wrote there is a large user basis. Which it normaly can't do like opening RAW files. Plugins and other programs such as RawTherapee it can even do things The question with Gimp is what is needed. I can solve them there so that they get own windows, Multi windows: my Gimp opens with one Window all the tools are dockedĪt the right side. I do not have experience with other programs. Iįind it also sometimes quite complicated, especially if multilayering isĭone. Somehow overwhelming because there are so many tools and functions. I also use Gimp, mainly since it is free and powerful.