For people who don't have photo shop and want to learn how to edit photos I'd recommend downloading the open source software GIMP 2. Today I made this ad layout in it, and I wasn't completely baffled by the program. So I guess GIMP on and make all your photo editing dreams come true.
Photoshop got functionalities Gimp can ever dream of. And that's why it's also expensive. I've tried both and i honestly think Photoshop is much easier, especially CS5.
Gimp's great. Not as good as PhotoShop (or at least not as many options and doohickies), but I also don't really have the money to afford PhotoShop, so that why I use (and love) Gimp.
I used GIMP for a while but I eventually got Photoshop. I cant' ever imagine going back. GIMP is probably easier for doing very basic stuff, but anything beyond that it can become real challenge. Photoshop, on the other hand, makes complex stuff super easy.
The Gimp is great considering its free. In my experience its not quite as good as photoshop, but like most things, the GIMP in the hands of someone with skills is infinitely better than Photoshop in the hands of a novice.
Dude GIMP is a hell of a lot tougher to use. You have to jump through a million fucking hoops to get the result you can get with 2 steps in Photoshop. Not to mention that the hotkeys are a mess, moving objects sucks and the amount of brushes you can use are minuscule at best. I think I'll stick to Photoshop.
Edit: Oh and tougher software does not mean more complex to master, it means worse programming/design.
GIMP is good. I've done some cool things in GIMP. But when I started using Photoshop. It is better.@Azteck said:
" Dude GIMP is a hell of a lot tougher to use. You have to jump through a million fucking hoops to get the result you can get with 2 steps in Photoshop. Not to mention that the hotkeys are a mess, moving objects sucks and the amount of brushes you can use are minuscule at best. I think I'll stick to Photoshop. Edit: Oh and tougher software does not mean more complex to master, it means worse programming/design. "
you can download brushes for GIMP. I've found some really good ones on deviant art.
I like my toolpanels to remain within the same window. Therefore Photoshop wins, & Gimpshop solution still sucks. But considering that Gimp is free you can't hate on it. But PS wins.
" For people who don't have photo shop and want to learn how to edit photos I'd recommend downloading the open source software GIMP 2. Today I made this ad layout in it, and I wasn't completely baffled by the program. So I guess GIMP on and make all your photo editing dreams come true. "
Yes, you too can make obnoxiously shitty ads with GIMP today!!!
Just dial 555-HURR-DURR and you'll be making threads about it in no time! It's so easy to get! Dial Now!
@Detrian: Don't be a dick just to be a dick. He just wanted to say that GIMP is great for people:
on a budget
don't resort to piracy to get what they want
people who want to dabble in "photo-shopping" without a time restraint (30-day trials can be a bit annoying at times; once it's done, it's done)
If you do have money laying around, however, you can spend up to $600 on th suite or roughly $80 for Elements 9 (I'm guessing it's some specific version of Photoshop).
GIMP is a good tool for people who are not doing really any sort of professional graphic design. The Adobe suite is what is being taught in schools and is pretty close to essential if you plan on doing normal graphic work. I'm sure that there are professional groups out there that use GIMP but its a lot like 3d design groups that use blender; It almost seems like they are using poor tools to prove something.
Also Photoshop inst too bad if you're a student. I think it's something like $200. But GIMP is very good for free.
GIMP is much harder to use than PhotoShop, and severely lacks in functionality. I've used GIMP for a while, and using PhotoShop opened my eyes to what I'd been missing.
I used to use Gimp, until my new laptop came with Photoshop Elements. I learned Photoshop when I had access to it in college, learned the Gimp interface due to being free, and now I have to relearn Photoshop. But I might be too lazy to do so.
@animateria: Yeah I uninstalled GIMP because of the hundreds and hundreds of annoying buttons.I'd stick with Photoshop.There is a reason it is so expensive.
@Zidd:@Video_Game_King: Hey thanks for mentioning Paint.NET guys, I've been looking for a decent drawing tool and I think Paint.NET feels a bit more like a drawing tool compared to GIMP, which I think is more for editing.
There's always the possibility of pirating. Or you can be decent and not do that. "
Do you use these programs? No? Shut up, then.
Adobe releases a new version of all of their programs yearly, charging nearly one thousand dollars for the entire suite. I'm a college student with no funds, of course I'm going to pirate this. I was hoping Adobe would learn someday to NOT do yearly releases. Six months after the release of one version only brings word of the next version to be coming in the next eight to twelve months, especially when most of the changes are minimal. Most of the changes are apparent if you go from CS3 to CS5, but year-to-year changes are mostly minute.
Anyway, no offense OP, but that looks like shit. You might as well use paint. You even saved that as a low quality .jpeg. Fuck, that looks more like a .bmp. Christ!
@Akrid: Nice, thanks! That one is a lot more artsy, different brush textures etc. I probably won't be able to use it properly but it's fun to play around with :)
" I prefer paint.net(free) on windows and Pixelmator($30) on Mac both are far more capable than GIMP but Photoshop is still the best. "
I can talk to pixelmator but Paint.net while being really good (I use it all the time in my webdev job) Gimp has far more knobs and dials than Paint.net which isn't always a good thing, I'll always recomend Paint.net to clients wanting to resize/crop photos to upload to their sites.
Of course a multi billion dollar corporation is going to have more bells and whistles but I pretty sure you can do almost anything in Gimp you can in Photoshop it will just be a lot easier in Photoshop and will take a lot less time to do there is also probably a lot more people posting how to's for Photoshop these days
an aside, people need to quit using photoshop for vector work just use illustrator (or Inkscape if your poor)
There's always the possibility of pirating. Or you can be decent and not do that. "
Do you use these programs? No? Shut up, then. Adobe releases a new version of all of their programs yearly, charging nearly one thousand dollars for the entire suite. I'm a college student with no funds, of course I'm going to pirate this. I was hoping Adobe would learn someday to NOT do yearly releases. Six months after the release of one version only brings word of the next version to be coming in the next eight to twelve months, especially when most of the changes are minimal. Most of the changes are apparent if you go from CS3 to CS5, but year-to-year changes are mostly minute. Anyway, no offense OP, but that looks like shit. You might as well use paint. You even saved that as a low quality .jpeg. Fuck, that looks more like a .bmp. Christ! "
Can you not just buy one version and use that? The fact that they release new ones yearly doesn't seem like a good excuse to steal, especially when you can just get a slightly older version for less cost.
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