Re: Re: Purer Than Thou
On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Yann Morvan wrote:
I know it’s a bit prosaic but the free as in free beer thing can
make a difference: -Photoshop CS2 at the French Adobe Store: 1075.20 euros -The GIMP (G as in GNU): 0 euros The GIMP’s interface would have to seriously suck (and it doesn’t)
to make up for the time spent at work earning a Photoshop licence.
And reading through the Wikipedia article on GIMP, I see that it has
some serious limitations that would make it inappropriate for
hardcore graphic artists (a group that certainly doesn’t include me).
E.g.:
Missing features, which many graphics artists require, include:
Support for the Pantone color matching system, or spot color. Support for Adobe Photoshop plugins and other add-ons[3]. Support for anything but 8-bit per-channel images e.g. 16-bit, 32- bit, floating point. Support for color models other than RGB(A) and greyscale, such as
CIE XYZ. (Partial CMYK support is available with the Separate plug- in.) Extensive gamma support. Support for Color management (GIMP has limited support through LCMS [4]) Native support for Adjustment layers, i.e. layers which act like
filters. (A plugin is available which adds some support for these.) Undo history “snapshots” that persist between sessions. The magnetic lasso tool, which assists the user in edge-finding.
There are many other graphic editors with basic capabilities for
people with needs well short of full-blown Photoshop, which is a
truly amazing program that can do nearly everything. So that’s really
not a valid comparison.
Doug