For those considering buying Photoshop or related products.

Give the GIMP a test drive. It is an 8Mb download from this location:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html

It has many pro features for the WWW and the only dowside is probably the inability to save GIFs in countries whre LZW is still covered by patents. (I don’t know the details.) It works only in RGB and Greyscale color modes (no CMYK support at the moment).

It’s, of course, free, and new releases are coming every now and then, so you don’t have to wait years for the new release just to be disappointed

the new "features". 😉

For WWW, you need the GIMP as well as another freeware app for image compression (XnView handles tihngs nicely).

This is about the cheapest solution (price being the cost of on-line time) for pro WWW work, AFAIK.

Mind you, it’s not faster than Photoshop and it doesn’t have as many features. I think it’s getting better all the time, tho. As far as I can tell, it’s already twice as fast as some previous versions that I tested

my PC. It’s probably much, much faster on Linux.

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Branko Vukelic ()

Give the GIMP a test drive. It is an 8Mb download from this location:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html

It has many pro features for the WWW and the only dowside is probably the inability to save GIFs in countries whre LZW is still covered by patents. (I don’t know the details.) It works only in RGB and Greyscale color modes (no CMYK support at the moment).

It’s, of course, free, and new releases are coming every now and then, so you don’t have to wait years for the new release just to be disappointed by the new "features". 😉

For WWW, you need the GIMP as well as another freeware app for image compression (XnView handles tihngs nicely).

This is about the cheapest solution (price being the cost of on-line time) for pro WWW work, AFAIK.

Mind you, it’s not faster than Photoshop and it doesn’t have as many features. I think it’s getting better all the time, tho. As far as I can tell, it’s already twice as fast as some previous versions that I tested on my PC. It’s probably much, much faster on Linux.

GIMP is good, so is PaintShopPro and FireWorks, but this is a PhotoShop group.

"Branko Vukelic" wrote in message

Give the GIMP a test drive. It is an 8Mb download from this location:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html

It has many pro features for the WWW and the only dowside is probably the inability to save GIFs in countries whre LZW is still covered by patents. (I don’t know the details.) It works only in RGB and Greyscale color modes (no CMYK support at the moment).

It’s, of course, free, and new releases are coming every now and then, so you don’t have to wait years for the new release just to be disappointed

by

the new "features". 😉

For WWW, you need the GIMP as well as another freeware app for image compression (XnView handles tihngs nicely).

This is about the cheapest solution (price being the cost of on-line time) for pro WWW work, AFAIK.

Mind you, it’s not faster than Photoshop and it doesn’t have as many features. I think it’s getting better all the time, tho. As far as I can tell, it’s already twice as fast as some previous versions that I tested

on

my PC. It’s probably much, much faster on Linux.

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Branko Vukelic ()

Give the GIMP a test drive. It is an 8Mb download from this location:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:28:40 +0100, "Branko Vukelic" wrote:

Give the GIMP a test drive. It is an 8Mb download from this location:

The main problem with the Gimp is it’s absolutely crap printing options. It’s fine for amateurs but useless for professionals, in terms of printing.

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Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

Corel Photopaint is awesome. In many ways has better features for professional work, IMO. I’ve seen the Coreldraw 9 Suite for sale as an OEM disk for $60.00. I do about 1,000.00 in billable work daily with this legendary version. This includes coreltrace and Coreldraw as well.
JD

The interface is still a bit awkward, but I think it’s neat that all the functions are packed into the right-click pop-up menu. I wish PS had this. You know, when you work with all the palletes and menus and all turned off, it would be nice to be able to access as many features through a simple right-click.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:36:52 +0100, "Branko Vukelic" wrote:

The interface is still a bit awkward, but I think it’s neat that all the functions are packed into the right-click pop-up menu. I wish PS had this. You know, when you work with all the palletes and menus and all turned off, it would be nice to be able to access as many features through a simple right-click.

I have the palettes on my second monitor and only the PS workspace on my main monitor, so I don’t really have that problem. But, yes, I agree that right click menus would be useful.

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Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:19:58 -0700, "Jeff H." wrote:

Corel Photopaint is awesome. In many ways has better features for professional work, IMO. I’ve seen the Coreldraw 9 Suite for sale as an OEM disk for $60.00. I do about 1,000.00 in billable work daily with this legendary version. This includes coreltrace and Coreldraw as well.
JD

I use Draw 11 and PhotoPaint is my image viewer. Yes, it is good, but it isn’t Photoshop. And, like the Gimp, it’s major weakness is printing.

I have no experience with Matrox, but any of the upper end ATI or nVidia cards will come with a "dual head" for two monitors.

mdavis wrote:

I have no experience with Matrox, but any of the upper end ATI or nVidia cards will come with a "dual head" for two monitors.

Thanks.

Hecate wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:36:52 +0100, "Branko Vukelic" wrote:

The interface is still a bit awkward, but I think it’s neat that all

functions are packed into the right-click pop-up menu. I wish PS had this. You know, when you work with all the palletes and menus and all turned off, it would be nice to be able to access as many features through a simple right-click.

I have the palettes on my second monitor and only the PS workspace on my main monitor, so I don’t really have that problem. But, yes, I agree that right click menus would be useful.

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Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

I keep wondering, how do you hook up two monitors to a single graphic

Do you need a special GC to do that? I guess you do, huh?
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Branko Vukelic ()