What the author of the review doesn't explain is the niche Gimp fills.
- Why use such a complex piece of software for fixing red-eye or cropping? - Why one needs to use PS for certain prepress jobs. - Why one should use Film-Gimp (Cinepaint) for its 16-bit deep editing abilities.
Gimp is not appropriate for every job, just like Perl or C++ have niches, and a review should explain what the appropriate tasks are.
Why use Gimp ? (Score:4, Interesting)
What the author of the review doesn't explain is the niche Gimp fills.
- Why use such a complex piece of software for fixing red-eye or cropping?
- Why one needs to use PS for certain prepress jobs.
- Why one should use Film-Gimp (Cinepaint) for its 16-bit deep editing abilities.
Gimp is not appropriate for every job, just like Perl or C++ have niches, and a review should explain what the appropriate tasks are.
Re: (Score:0, Offtopic)
Perl is a niche, C++ is not.
There isn't any program that can't be done well in C++
addendum (Score:4, Funny)
Fixed that for you.
Re:addendum (Score:0)
"C combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with the portability of assembly language."
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but we're talking about C++ here.
So you need to add in "... with all the readability of perl"