Gimp v painshop v serif
Posted 10/07/2011 - 16:59 - Helpful Comment
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Unfortunately cheap commercial photo software doesn't come close to GIMP in terms of power. Unless you can afford some genuinely powerful commercial software - such as Adobe Lightroom - I'd recommend GIMP.
Rather than spending money on cheap software, I'd spend the money on a decent book to teach you how to use GIMP properly, such as this one.
Rather than spending money on cheap software, I'd spend the money on a decent book to teach you how to use GIMP properly, such as this one.
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Posted 10/07/2011 - 17:09
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MarkTaylor wrote:
Unfortunately cheap commercial photo software doesn't come close to GIMP in terms of power. Unless you can afford some genuinely powerful commercial software - such as Adobe Lightroom - I'd recommend GIMP.
Rather than spending money on cheap software, I'd spend the money on a decent book to teach you how to use GIMP properly, such as this one.
Mark thank you for your help, I'll be fine now, Iagree it is a god editing software programm and I would like to learn how to use it properly, I sometimes use Picnik when i load photos to flickr and find thats good too. Cheers and thanks again trixie
Unfortunately cheap commercial photo software doesn't come close to GIMP in terms of power. Unless you can afford some genuinely powerful commercial software - such as Adobe Lightroom - I'd recommend GIMP.
Rather than spending money on cheap software, I'd spend the money on a decent book to teach you how to use GIMP properly, such as this one.
Posted 10/07/2011 - 22:24
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Another vote for GIMP - it's actually easier to use than PS once you get over the learning hump, and is more internally consistent IMHO.
If you can bring yourself to use GIMP on a Linux system, then there is DarkTable available too (the F/OSS take on LightRoom - named as a pun on DarkRoom/LightTable).
Very latest version is much faster due to making direct use of your graphic card acceleration.
If you can bring yourself to use GIMP on a Linux system, then there is DarkTable available too (the F/OSS take on LightRoom - named as a pun on DarkRoom/LightTable).
Very latest version is much faster due to making direct use of your graphic card acceleration.
Posted 11/07/2011 - 02:01
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MarkTaylor wrote:
Unfortunately cheap commercial photo software doesn't come close to GIMP in terms of power. Unless you can afford some genuinely powerful commercial software - such as Adobe Lightroom - I'd recommend GIMP.
Rather than spending money on cheap software, I'd spend the money on a decent book to teach you how to use GIMP properly, such as this one.
That's interesting. As a long-time user of Serif PhotoPlus (and PS up to version 7), I'd be keen to hear of any advantages you find in Gimp over PhotoPlus. I'm always happy to learn.Unfortunately cheap commercial photo software doesn't come close to GIMP in terms of power. Unless you can afford some genuinely powerful commercial software - such as Adobe Lightroom - I'd recommend GIMP.
Rather than spending money on cheap software, I'd spend the money on a decent book to teach you how to use GIMP properly, such as this one.
Al
Posted 11/07/2011 - 09:55
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GIMP is seriously good. What do you want to do? About the only minimal quibble I have is not being able to use vectors properly - but then, neither can PS.
Each has their own supporters and - aside from the "we support PS plugins and a 48 bit colour space" I don't see any reason to spend money on this particular piece of software.
As far as GIMP is concerned, I can more than live with the interface, I have a G13 set up at work with very specific keys to make my life easier and it works beautifully with the wacom tablet. Add in the fact that UFRaw works and is relatively rapid with a decent external disk and it gets very, very close to Lightroom in terms of RAW usability. It doesn't do the catalogue thing - which I don't miss much, but I suspect I would if I'd used it for any length of time - and the plugins for Lightroom are really rather good if you're looking to deliberately edit your pics. Moral? GIMP with Batch Processor and UFRaw is all anyone should need and it's free. It doesn't tend to crash on me, either, unless I've loaded up more than 15 pics on a 4GB RAM machine which means I hit the disk and memory limits of the computer.
Bret
Each has their own supporters and - aside from the "we support PS plugins and a 48 bit colour space" I don't see any reason to spend money on this particular piece of software.
As far as GIMP is concerned, I can more than live with the interface, I have a G13 set up at work with very specific keys to make my life easier and it works beautifully with the wacom tablet. Add in the fact that UFRaw works and is relatively rapid with a decent external disk and it gets very, very close to Lightroom in terms of RAW usability. It doesn't do the catalogue thing - which I don't miss much, but I suspect I would if I'd used it for any length of time - and the plugins for Lightroom are really rather good if you're looking to deliberately edit your pics. Moral? GIMP with Batch Processor and UFRaw is all anyone should need and it's free. It doesn't tend to crash on me, either, unless I've loaded up more than 15 pics on a 4GB RAM machine which means I hit the disk and memory limits of the computer.
Bret
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my kit: K3, K5, K-01, DA 18-55, D-FA50 macro, Siggy 30/1.4, 100-300/f4, 70-200/2.8, Samsung 12-24/f4, Tamron 17-50, and lots of other bits.
Posted 11/07/2011 - 11:10
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I'm not willing to play salesman for Serif but all their products including Photoplus X4 are fully certified for Window 7, make full use if multi core processors such as with my i7 powered Acer.
Serif have an active and vocal message board system and genuinely improve each release in response to users. They also allow posts of criticism when they get it wrong. Very rare for commercial firms to do this. All programs have a sticky subject for future improvement ideas. Not open community like Gimp but pretty good.
I try too avoid too much post processing but the 16 bits per channel editing, the HDR facility, The RAW studio, the compatibility with Photoshop plugins, full layers, masks and non destructive studio seem pretty good to me.
If you hunt around on their site you can download a pdf of the full handbook. Very extensive help for any photographer in it regardless of what you use!
I get the sub £30 upgrades once stuff has been out a while but very pleased with all I can do. Oh and fully integrated with web and DTP programs of theirs I use.
Serif have an active and vocal message board system and genuinely improve each release in response to users. They also allow posts of criticism when they get it wrong. Very rare for commercial firms to do this. All programs have a sticky subject for future improvement ideas. Not open community like Gimp but pretty good.
I try too avoid too much post processing but the 16 bits per channel editing, the HDR facility, The RAW studio, the compatibility with Photoshop plugins, full layers, masks and non destructive studio seem pretty good to me.
If you hunt around on their site you can download a pdf of the full handbook. Very extensive help for any photographer in it regardless of what you use!
I get the sub £30 upgrades once stuff has been out a while but very pleased with all I can do. Oh and fully integrated with web and DTP programs of theirs I use.
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