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Layers, channels, masks, filters, levels, advanced pattern matching—the remarkable feature list of Gimp is equal to Photoshop in every way except one: the price. Restore, touch up and manipulate photos, create complex animations, or just use Gimpshop as a simple paint program. The only limit is your imagination. After all, GIMP is the most popular image editing application for Linux and the biggest open source competitor to Adobe Photoshop. Despite some differences in appearance and functionality of the two, GIMP is often recommended to Linux newcomers as 'the Photoshop alternative '. GIMP has long been viewed as a poor relation to Photoshop, mostly of interest to Linux users. However, it has come a long way and is a very worthy, and very powerful, image editor now matter what. Maybe you can try GimPhoto:) GimPhoto is using newer version of GIMP than Gimpshop (GimPhoto and Gimpshop is different program). GimPhoto have eraser tool to make transparent background. GimPhoto runs very smooth on Windows XP even when using older hardware because it have lower hardware requirements than GIMP or Gimpshop. GIMPshop vs gimp: A free, copy-left graphics editor based on GIMP with many similar products to expensive software like Adobe Photoshop. Free download provided for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.

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GimpShop different to Gimp? Steve Lett 08 May 10:25
GimpShop different to Gimp? Alexandre Prokoudine 08 May 10:50
GimpShop different to Gimp? Michael Schumacher 08 May 11:15
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GimpShop different to Gimp?

After 3 attempts at downloading GimpShop I succeeded to install it. But Iwas disappointed. My expectations were to see a PhotoShop-like program butit looks just like the ordinary Gimp program.

Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be different about GimpShop?

Thanks, Steve

2017-05-08 10:50:10 UTC (over 3 years ago)permalink

GimpShop different to Gimp?

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On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Steve Lett wrote:

After 3 attempts at downloading GimpShop I succeeded to install it. But Iwas disappointed. My expectations were to see a PhotoShop-like program butit looks just like the ordinary Gimp program.

Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be different about GimpShop?

Off the top of my head: icons, menu items' names, some keyboard shortcuts.

We also wouldn't recommend downloading more recent GimpShop forsecurity reasons.

Alex

2017-05-08 11:15:18 UTC (over 3 years ago)permalink

GimpShop different to Gimp?

Von: 'Alexandre Prokoudine'
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Steve Lett wrote:

After 3 attempts at downloading GimpShop I succeeded to install it. But Iwas disappointed. My expectations were to see a PhotoShop-like program butit looks just like the ordinary Gimp program.

Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be different about GimpShop?

Off the top of my head: icons, menu items' names, some keyboard shortcuts.

One of the suggestions we had at that time was whether this could be done via translations and a customized shortcuts file. But this either didn't work, or was not followed up by the original author, I don't recall.

And there was something similar to Single Window Mode, via a plug-in that added a window to capture all the GIMP windows - only for the Windows platforms, IIRC.

We also wouldn't recommend downloading more recent GimpShop forsecurity reasons.

'I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.---
I don't have a project site for it. I became discouraged after this whole ordeal and I let it slip away into obscurity. …. Gimpshop was a fun little 'prank' that got bigger than I ever expected. Sad what it has become, though.'

Whether you are actively considering a move away from Photoshop, or simply hoping there is a non-proprietary tool for reading your Photoshop images if you ever decide to stop subscribing to Adobe's cloud, you've probably wondered about GIMP. A free, open-source, image editor, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has been a go-to tool for Linux users for years, but has a reputation for being hard to use and lacking many of Photoshop's features. The reality has changed dramatically over the last couple years. GIMP now has a very competent user interface, as well as an extensive and powerful set of features. Its openly extensible nature means that in some areas, like running well-known image processing algorithms on your photos, it actually outshines Adobe Photoshop.

We took a deep dive into the current version, GIMP 2.8, to help you figure out whether GIMP might be the right photo editor for you.

First impressions fromt Photoshop veteran

When you first load GIMP 2.8, you might be forgiven for thinking that you'd fired up an alternate UI for Photoshop. Familiar panels for Layers, Brushes, Tools, Paths, and plenty of others are available. Individual tabs can be torn off (although it requires using a command on the palette menu instead of Adobe's more intuitive action), so you can tweak GIMP UI just about as much as you can Photoshop's.

Menus also closely parallel Photoshop's, with File, Edit, Select, View, Image, Filters, and Help serving the same functions — although in a slightly different order. The Colors and Tools menus are unique to GIMP, with Colors pulling together operations that affect image content, that are usually found under the Image > Adjustments menu in Photoshop. The Tools menu pulls together a mixed bag of the same tools that are found in the Toolbox, plus some tools Adobe puts in the Image menu, like Crop. It also provides a window into some of the very powerful and extensible scripted image transforms that GIMP allows. Unfortunately, some of the icons, like the one for the crop tool shown, are different from the ones used by Photoshop, so finding your favorite may take some hunting.

Crop tool

GIMP's missing Text menu is a hint that its Text capability, while very competent, is not as feature-rich as Photoshop's. Missing are some of the fancy layout options, as well as all the built-in effects and warps from Photoshop. The good news is that there are GIMP plug-ins that will restore many of the missing features.

The menu of 3D commands found in Photoshop's Extended and Creative Cloud editions is also not part of Gimp. Some of the available GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) scripts are helpful in performing similar operations in Gimp, though. Those scripts are one of the coolest features of GIMP, making it an open platform for image processing developers. While Photoshop can be scripted, most image transforms are either 'black box' plug-ins or actual built-in commands.

GIMP also lacks Photoshop's powerful Adjustment Layers. You can make a new layer, apply a Filter, and then tweak the opacity or blend mode, but it is a full image layer — like it or not. There are some plans to try to offer equivalent functionality to Adjustment Layers through GIMP, but there doesn't seem to be an ideal workaround for the issue yet. GIMP History feature is also much less powerful than Photoshop's. You can go back through your History as you might in most software — essentially a graphical list of possible Undos — but you can't play around with your History or use a History brush like you can in Photoshop.

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