Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 13:33 UTC, submitted by alcibiades
"I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the Macintoshes in our digital media lab and installing Ubuntu in its place. I began seriously planning this change last school year, when I realized how fully the current feature sets of free software programs could satisfy the technical needs of the students in my classes. I decided that the time had come to teach our undergraduate art students about free software programs such as the GIMP, Scribus, and Quanta Plus, instead of proprietary programs such as Photoshop, QuarkXpress, and Dreamweaver."
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2005-06-30
I don't know. I believe the tool doesn't matter as much as creativity... I mean, a generic Joe won't best a skilled artist just because he is using Photoshop while the latter is using the GIMP. In other words, Photoshop is no subsitute for talent.
That said, I believe you have an easier time with Photoshop. I just can't stand the GIMP interface and its quirks. Not to mention that Photoshop got thousands of plugins to automate tasks and that GIMP is no longer the ultimate OSS alternative... In my opinion, Krita is now even better.