[Gllug] Re Gimp/Photoshop

Xander D Harkness xanderpop at harkness.co.uk
Mon Dec 10 11:22:12 UTC 2001


The price is a valid pint; however if you are doing any sort of print
work you need full colour separation rather than just RGB.  GIMP does
not provide this at present.  (The print houses need the four colour
separation to prepare the print plates)

Cheers
Xander

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Allen Wayne
wrote:

>  
> > 
> > >Sadly the gimp is not as good as photoshop.
> > 
> > It all depends on what you want to do with it. For web graphics, GIMP
> > is as good, and in places better, than Photoshop. For prepress work
> > and film production, Photoshop is (currently) better.
> 
> 
> But are we not forgetting something here....
> 
> Gimp...FREE (ish) Photoshop.....400ukp +!!!!!
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 


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