[Gllug] Forward of moderated message

[Christopher Hunter]

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 09:59 +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:57:05 +0100 Andy Millar <andy at andymillar.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 00:46 +0100, 'lesleyb' wrote:
> > > 
> > > Obviously there is no Photoshop in Linux so she would have to learn
> > > about equivalent software in Ubuntu.
> > 
> > I'm told GIMP is pretty similar.
> > 

> GIMP is not similar, and, in any case, is nowhere near as sophisticated
> as Photoshop. The unavailability of Photoshop in Linux is one of the
> minus points,

GIMP is actually similar (functionally) to Photoshop, but without the
overheads of paying for Photoshop (which is spectacularly expensive),
paying for Windows, and paying for all the huge amount of time needed to
handle the crashes of Photoshop and the general misbehaviour of Windows.

GIMP wins in EVERY way!

C.



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