Sorry no, but in your dreams. GIMP is not a professional tool -- very far from it. It's has little more functionality than Elements. It lacks essential professional tools. It's worthless to a professional.
Perhaps the subtitle should be "From Novice to Enthusiastic Amateur".
I can understand a professional pooh-poohing GIMP, because I've taught Photoshop to professional photographers now for a couple of years, and they love to try GIMP out for a couple of days and then add it to their software sh** list.
Overly flexible use of the word "professional" is the problem. Out of all of my students who can be considered professionals, I've noticed that my students who started out with GIMP and keep using it alongside Photoshop after they learn Photoshop are, as a rule far more profe
Out of all of my students who can be considered professionals, I've noticed that my students who started out with GIMP and keep using it alongside Photoshop after they learn Photoshop are, as a rule far more professional than all respects than their peers.
They all do a mixture of both, like any photographer would - printing work sometimes, for competitions or art shows, and using their tools of choice for web graphics and website updates at other times. BTW, you know that GIMP's "niche printing issues" would almost never bother a photographer, right? They are not going to be doing pre-press stuff, and most involved with that sort of printing report back to me that their pre-press people keep asking for JPEGs, which...is what it is, I guess.
The pre-press people I know who would really hate life with GIMP are just about as niched-in as they come, working at places like talented-but-failing T-Shirt printing companies. And I would absolutely hate their job; I watched some friends in that niche use Photoshop once, and it was absolutely painful. I would NEVER in a million years expect serving this niche to be one of GIMP's main priorities.
BTW, you know that GIMP's "niche printing issues" would almost never bother a photographer, right?
Other than GIMP not being capable of more than 8 bits per colour channel, I don't know or recall about GIMP's "niche printing issues".
I really want to try CinePaint [cinepaint.org] but I haven't found an online tutorial on using it, even CinePaint's online tutorial [cinepaint.org] does not say how to use it. And unlike GIMP for which there are books, including the one being reviewed here, I haven't been able to find one for CinePaint. If yo
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Subtitle is misleading. (Score:5, Interesting)
Sorry no, but in your dreams. GIMP is not a professional tool -- very far from it. It's has little more functionality than Elements. It lacks essential professional tools. It's worthless to a professional.
Perhaps the subtitle should be "From Novice to Enthusiastic Amateur".
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Overly flexible use of the word "professional" is the problem. Out of all of my students who can be considered professionals, I've noticed that my students who started out with GIMP and keep using it alongside Photoshop after they learn Photoshop are, as a rule far more profe
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Out of all of my students who can be considered professionals, I've noticed that my students who started out with GIMP and keep using it alongside Photoshop after they learn Photoshop are, as a rule far more professional than all respects than their peers.
How many of them do web work versus print work?
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Re:Subtitle is misleading. (Score:2)
The pre-press people I know who would really hate life with GIMP are just about as niched-in as they come, working at places like talented-but-failing T-Shirt printing companies. And I would absolutely hate their job; I watched some friends in that niche use Photoshop once, and it was absolutely painful. I would NEVER in a million years expect serving this niche to be one of GIMP's main priorities.
GIMP (Score:2)
BTW, you know that GIMP's "niche printing issues" would almost never bother a photographer, right?
Other than GIMP not being capable of more than 8 bits per colour channel, I don't know or recall about GIMP's "niche printing issues".
I really want to try CinePaint [cinepaint.org] but I haven't found an online tutorial on using it, even CinePaint's online tutorial [cinepaint.org] does not say how to use it. And unlike GIMP for which there are books, including the one being reviewed here, I haven't been able to find one for CinePaint. If yo