"Pixel (formerly Pixel32) is an image editing program, similar to Photoshop or Gimp, that runs on a large variety of platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Zeta, OS X, SkyOS and more. In an 8 year period, it has grown to become a very pleasant-looking and usefull application. Unlike Gimp, it has support for CMYK and uses its own GUI toolkit called eLiquid. Pixel can work with PSD files and work is being done to improve this feature. Pavel agreed to answer some of our questions regarding Pixel."
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Member since:2005-07-06
That's exactly what I hate about Gimp and is totaly useless to me. Almost every professional designer or other that do serious work with images, use Photoshop. People are used to that GUI and if you ask me, it's really great. Similar GUI is used by other applications (Illustrator, Freehand, Corel, PsP, ...). But when you open up Gimp, you get lost, too confusing, too many floating windows everywhere, I never know where to click or anything. Typical "made by geek" project. Since I found it useless, I bough Pixel, which is great, also costs only $25 (I think). There could me more updates, but overall, for me, it's way better than Gimp.
Member since:2005-08-15
Member since:2005-11-12
A bad craftsman always blames his tools and who said anything about professional designer?
Fact is people want a photoshop just to draw their stick men and professional designers like the features of GIMP. One of these being the separate canvas rather than being inside the main window.
Member since:2005-07-08
It's basically a copy of Photoshop with the UI being almost identical.
Then you've never used Photoshop professionally have you? GIMP does image manipulation somewhat well, to a degree. But it doesn't do design, and it still is beat hands down by Photoshop. GIMP lacks good features in the following: text controls, layer styles, color management, layer manipulation, selection mechanisms, tablet support, brush system, tool set, filters, path options among many other things.
GIMP wouldn't last 10 minutes in a professional workflow. I used to think it could, as I used gimp for years up until I started doing professional work, then I realized I needed Photoshop & Friends.
I occasionally try out the competition (of photoshop and illustrator), and am always frustrated by the lack of quality. I mean this about Pixel, GIMP, Inkscape, Xara and Krita.
I wish it weren't true, because I hate being tied to Adobe, it is and I have to live with it.
Member since:2005-11-12
Well you suggested "GIMP wouldn't last ten minutes in a professional workflow" no one else did. Gimp does image manipulation well enough for the user and the UI is very like Photoshop.
By the way, this maybe off topic but Xara is Superior to illustrator in many ways, but thats vector graphics.
Member since:
2005-11-12
But it's nether free or opensource and I'd wouldn't call GIMP not useful. It's basically a copy of Photoshop with the UI being almost identical.
Atleast the GIMP is bold enough to be different and I find the UI good enough to do what it supposed to do.