[Gllug] GIMP/PSP (was "Gimp/Photoshop")

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

James <James.Rocks at equant.com> asked:

> Does anyone know how GIMP compares with Paint Shop Pro?

I used to be an avid PSP user (round about v3... c. 1998) and then
discovered the GIMP. I didn't find it too hard to get my head round the
GIMP and made the switch.

A couple of months ago, I was visiting a friend and got the chance to
play on a much more recent version of PSP (v7?). I was pleased to see
that all sorts of extra things (like multiple layers / transparency) had
been introduced but I found the couple of hours I spent with it fairly
frustrating. Obviously it was at the start of another learning curve,
but I didn't find the promise of anything I could do with PSP that I
couldn't do with the GIMP.

Maybe others have pressed their investigations further, but on the
basis of a fair amount of experience (primarily with web graphics), I
found nothing to make me want to switch back to a proprietary package
from the GIMP.

Of course, you may be looking at it the other way round - what would
make you want to switch from the version of PSP you already have to the
GIMP? If so, maybe you could suggest a couple of effects you like to use
on PSP and we could see if the GIMP can do something similar.

Wulf



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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