<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Snail <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:snailtsunami@gmail.com">snailtsunami@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>Even not being very familiar with photoshop to mess up my intuition, I found gimp extremely unintuitive and frustrating after trying out for a while and eventually uninstalled it. Now I just lol my cat photos with whatever simple image program comes with the OS.</p>
</blockquote><div><br>Actually I do that a lot of the time. Apple's Preview has pretty good basic utilities. But for Linux counterpart I am not sure. Definitely you don't want a giant program to do simple jobs. Image Magick's Spiff does a big big improvement on a lot of photos with no fussing at all, one click.<br>
<br>Two things very useful in either Photoshop or Gimp IMHO are Levels and Curves, and also probably color cast correction. Both have and are basic to better results.<br><br>I don't know how advanced the OP was in Photoshop. But I am certainly not an expert in either. Besides the above, I just click buttons and move sliders and see what happens, and if I don't like I click undo. Everything I know I learned by experimenting.<br>
<br>However maybe some Fine Arts background does help, knowing somethings about color and composition, implying you get ideas of what you want or what needs fixing.<br><br>One other thing I know is to resize images and for sharpening. Gimp has a few sharpening methods that maybe Photoshop does not and vice versa. Some pictures "like" different sharpening or resampling methods.<br>
<br>One thing that confuses me are which operations are OK on jpegs which don't lower (degrade) the quality. Basicly I crop and rotate only and otherwise I save as ping in case I want to edit again. Also I save versions as I go along.<br>
<br>To spend a half hour or more on one picture is like a good meditation. Sometimes amazing results sometimes bad, can't force it.<br>Helps to have an obsessive mind set.<br><br>Is the above anything anyone would be wanting help or demonstration of ?<br>
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<p></p><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">On Sep 2, 2011 5:22 PM, "Brian Morris" <<a href="mailto:cymraegish@gmail.com" target="_blank">cymraegish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Gimp should maybe be called GAP for Gap Ain't Photoshop (but it does fill a Gap).<br>
<br>Try and forget Photoshop. Or think as a bright intuitive person just getting started and try it out for a while.<br><br>By the way Gimp is available on Mac, and it works well for me there. Also there are simple tools such as Image Magick that can help you.<br>
<br><br>There is an unofficial version called GimpPainter, that now looks more like Photoshop, but you have to merge patches with upstream and build yourself, and no guarantee it will work.<br><br> <br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p><font color="#500050">On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Rubin Abdi <<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a>> wrote:</font></p></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p><font color="#500050"></font></p><div class="im"><font color="#500050">><br>> I just switched back to GNU Linux after being on Mac for about 3/4<br></font></div><font color="#500050">> something years. GIMP seems...</font><p>
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