Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Oct 2007 22:05 UTC
The Gimp 2.4 was released today and it includes a number of new features, like scalable brushes, align tool, new selection tools, color Management and soft-proofing, Red Eye removal and much more. Unfortunately, there is still no 16bit per pixel support, which is useful for digital photography editing.
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2006-02-25
Itīs still not photoshop!!
Ok, now talking seriously, I used gimp for almost a decade to do all kind of stuff: design, illustration, etc. I think it's a very powerful app, however I just tested gimp 2.4 and it's pretty little what changed in, what? 8 years? Gimp development has almost stalled, and its progress is endlessly slow.
Photoshop probably has ten times more features than The Gimp, and even when I believe a great deal of them are very redundant (can be done in many ways, almost all with the same effort, or in some way with The Gimp), I do believe that many of them ARE extremely useful, such as:
- 16 bits per channel
- CMYK colorspace
- Layer Folders, I use to have a ton of them and my Gimp is a mess.
- Realtime Layer Effects (something that could probably be done better, but still a very useful feature for designers)
- SANE Guides support. Gimp support for guides is so poor..
- Polygonal selection, I can't understand how this isn't supported, you need it so often. Using the path in polygon mode and converting to selection is ANNOYING. CG artists also have been using polygonal selection in PS for applying shadows to base colors since ages, this simply can't be done in any useful way with The Gimp.
-Better deformation tools, rotate/perspective/scale is just too basic. Photoshop has grid based deformation for applying textures when doing realistic retouching and it's extremely useful.
-An user interface that can be customized WITHOHT huge floating windows. Photoshop has always solved this so well, by having brushes at the left and brush properties on top. In the Gimp, every single screen is big. you can stack them and tab them, but they are still big, so you always have two huge windows, at the left and the right.
-Dynamic brushes are a DISASTER, I find myself having to create the dynamic brush every time i want to use it, because there is no way to just have a dynamic brush tool.
Well that's some of my annoyances with it. It's not things I find annoying because I am used to photoshop (I'm not, I barely use it), but things that I keep finding annoying after almost a decade of using it. At this rate it doesn't seem it's going to change.. so i kid of lost hope anyway.