and a more intuitive workflow, a lot less of this book would really be necessary and GIMP might actually find some greater acceptance.
As goofy as the Adobe GUI is, Photoshop is the poop, pure and simple, and all other image appas are compared to it. Painter, for example is slower and clumsier, but it has awesome brushes, MS Paint is its own hobbled ugliness but has its uses, GIMP is ugly and retarded, but it's free and it works, etc. The day Adobe puts CS on Linux is the day GIMP gets a stake driven throu
In OS X, you will also need X11 or XDarwin in order to launch and run Gimpshop.
I'm not going to dump out to X11 to run something that, while close, is not BETTER than Photoshop. That exceeds my hassle factor. I should click it and it should open, period. Running X11 or XDarwin is NOT why I run OS X. I have better things to do with my time.
You know, X11 Mac apps do that. You click on the Gimp.app (for example) icon in the dock (or in/Applications), and it starts. If X11 isn't running yet, it automatically launches. And you don't have to "dump out" to anything, either -- native app windows and X app windows are on the same desktop.
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As goofy as the Adobe GUI is, Photoshop is the poop, pure and simple, and all other image appas are compared to it. Painter, for example is slower and clumsier, but it has awesome brushes, MS Paint is its own hobbled ugliness but has its uses, GIMP is ugly and retarded, but it's free and it works, etc. The day Adobe puts CS on Linux is the day GIMP gets a stake driven throu
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I'll definitely buy this book. I dislike GIMP intensely, but knowing it better might take an edge off.
Have you tried GIMPshop [gimpshop.com]?
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In OS X, you will also need X11 or XDarwin in order to launch and run Gimpshop.
I'm not going to dump out to X11 to run something that, while close, is not BETTER than Photoshop. That exceeds my hassle factor. I should click it and it should open, period. Running X11 or XDarwin is NOT why I run OS X. I have better things to do with my time.
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You know, X11 Mac apps do that. You click on the Gimp.app (for example) icon in the dock (or in /Applications), and it starts. If X11 isn't running yet, it automatically launches. And you don't have to "dump out" to anything, either -- native app windows and X app windows are on the same desktop.