Re: gimp or photoshop?

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:18:38 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

On 31-05-09 21:28, ray wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2009 15:40:22 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

On 31-05-09 15:10, ray wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2009 11:04:22 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

On 30-05-09 18:28, jerry wrote:
how does gimp compare to photoshop?
Like most things free compare to most things professionally
developed for demanding non-professional and professional users.

Actually the "quality ratio" of PS:Gimp is about the same as Mac OS
X:Linux.

That is to say about 100:1.
Really? I didn't think Linux was one hundred times better than MAC -
I'd only say about 1.1.
Guess you don't use Mac's much.

Guess you don't use Linux much.

See my other post. I've installed half a dozen Linux platforms over the
past 8 years. Oddly the first lasted the longest as I persevered in
trying to make it work as I required. Then with successive Linux
installs I more quickly reached the decision point where I recognized
that getting what I wanted required much more effort than I was willing
to expend.

Mac OS X, on the other hand is a pure, simple, clean OS that works w/o
fuss or problems. (When I bought the Mac I feared having "Linux like"
issues. Hah! Forget it. Mac OS X _works_.

It really comes down to my time. And my time is a hell of a lot more
valuable than the small fist of dollars saved with a "free" OS that
requires hours and hours of work on the computer and OS and not hours
doing what I require of work _out_ of the computer. I stopped enjoying
computers a long time ago when I stopped designing RT systems for a
living. After that: computer = tool. Nothing more.

Really. You must not be very competent. I've never had to spend large
amounts of time to 'make Linux work'. It simply does. Latest example:
eeepc for the wife for Christmas. Neither one of us cared much for the
brain damaged version of Xandros, so wiped it and installed Debian -
network install. Put a small file on a USB drive, booted, installed from
the internet. No fuss, no muss, no bother, and no problems since - it
simply works.
.

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