The upcoming Mac mini

[Alrin]

Trying not to stray too far away from the topic but..
Photoshop vs Gimp is like comparing a custom car (user customized) to a factory-built high-quality vehicle. The custom car has the "Ooooh.." factor and alot of extra (sometimes not so intuitive) features, while the factory car has alot of good documentation, support and the manufacturer wants to keep the customer(s) happy. Bad example, but I think you get the idea.

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For most average users, GIMP works as well as Photoshop.  It has a different style of UI (I wouldn't call it worse - just different and alien), but overall it's a VERY good open-source product. 

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True, Gimp is a quality program. It gets you from A to B. Perhaps not with so much fun and excitement that you get with competitor C that takes you to a roundtrip to Æ while getting there and serving freshly-plucked strawberries on the trip, but it gets you there.

I think the only reason I myself am not using Gimp is because I get constant upgrades of Photoshop by working for my father as his personal design/layout-slave and thus his company provides me with the software I request. I remember testing Gimp once though.. (way way back when I fool-heartedly installed slackware on a crummy pentium) and I was put off by the UI instantly. I tried to work with it but it was too much weirdness going on. Alot of "filters" that were jibberish to me. The whole lets-make-plenty-of-free-floating-windows-without-any-coherency thing was not my cup of tea. At all.

Then again, I know very skilled artists that swear by Gimp and honestly believe PS to be the Dark Lord incarnate. So.. *shrugs* .. it varies..

Alright, enough off-topic by yours truly. Carry on. Nothing to see here.