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GIMP is the best image editor anyone has ever made. It's free, open-source, and there is absolutely no reason to cough up $700 for Photoshop, or even go the trouble of getting a pirated version. GIMP is better than any editing program and everybody who has anything else should download GIMP right now.
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OK, seriously though...
I discovered GIMP a few years ago, or, more accurately, somebody showed it to me. Ever since then I haven't used anything else, since it's more than enough for my image manipulation needs. I've never used PS before, so I can't compare, but from what I know from comparisons, I'd say that there's no point in me getting it. I'd be more comfortable with GIMP, anyway.
As for those windows you guys are complaining about... you can attach them all onto the single "Toolbox" window. Drag them, not from the Windows border, but from the bit just below that. Drag it over to the bottom half of the Toolbox window, and it'll snap there. Then you can just switch between tabs. That's what I do, and what I've always done, and it's much better than having multiple windows.
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What the hell.
GIMP is the best image editor anyone has ever made. It's free, open-source, and there is absolutely no reason to cough up $700 for Photoshop, or even go the trouble of getting a pirated version. GIMP is better than any editing program and everybody who has anything else should download GIMP right now.
[NONSENSICAL RANT END]
OK, seriously though...
I discovered GIMP a few years ago, or, more accurately, somebody showed it to me. Ever since then I haven't used anything else, since it's more than enough for my image manipulation needs. I've never used PS before, so I can't compare, but from what I know from comparisons, I'd say that there's no point in me getting it. I'd be more comfortable with GIMP, anyway.
As for those windows you guys are complaining about... you can attach them all onto the single "Toolbox" window. Drag them, not from the Windows border, but from the bit just below that. Drag it over to the bottom half of the Toolbox window, and it'll snap there. Then you can just switch between tabs. That's what I do, and what I've always done, and it's much better than having multiple windows.
EDIT:
(03-12-2012, 02:18 PM)Mighty Jetters Wrote: (despite the fact that I can't open images with transparency grrr).
(03-12-2012, 02:18 PM)Mighty Jetters Wrote: the fact that I can't open images with transparency
(03-12-2012, 02:18 PM)Mighty Jetters Wrote: I can't open images with transparency
What the hell.