<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/7/13, Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Graham wrote:<br>> I have the Gimp on my system (Kubuntu Feisty) amended to make it<br>> Gimpshop.<br>><br>> I appreciated that Gimpshop is just a reordering of the Gimp menus to<br>> make it more like Photoshop without giving it any other functionality,
<br>> however, this appears to be the most Photoshop-like application<br>> available in Linux.<br>><br>> The problem before me is that in September I shall be following a course<br>> in Photography that presupposes you have Photoshop installed on your
<br>> computer and you are given add-ons that work like plug-ins to<br>> Photoshop. I've raised this problem in some digital photography<br>> magazines in the UK which usually run primers in Photoshop together
<br>> with DVDs of software.<br>><br>> Apart from its high cost, Photoshop doesn't run on Linux, so it seems I<br>> am going to have to buy a cheap desktop to run WinXP or a Mac and<br>> Photoshop unless....
<br>><br>> Do any on this forum know of any application for Linux that is totally<br>> Photoshop compatible, even down to the same type of interface?.....<br><br>No I unfortunately do not but perhaps other will.<br>
<br>Have you raised this problem with the course organisers? Perhaps the<br>course is aimed at Photoshop but the principles in terms of image<br>manipulate should also be achievable in other applications. I would have<br>
though a good portion of the course would cover basic image editing and<br>manipulation using colour adjustment and unsharp mask etc.<br><br>In this case, it should be the theory behind the changes you are making<br>that is important to you rather than the "what to click in photoshop to
<br>make your photo better" approach. Gaining this level of understanding (I<br>wont pretend I know anything about it!) would, to me, seem like the best<br>learning outcome to take from such a course.<br><br>If you tell the course organisers that you do now own Photoshop and that
<br>you run Linux and will therefore use the Gimp and (seeing as we are in<br>this room!) the Digikam Image Editor to complete your assignments,<br>perhaps they will support you as best they can and perhaps your findings<br>
and feedback will help produce alternative course notes for other<br>students who want to use Gimp (even on Windows) or Digikam.<br><br>I know that Photoshop has substantially more options than Gimp or DIE<br>and this is fine, but I guess you have to ask yourself if you are only
<br>installing Windows/Photoshop to complete the course and will then revert<br>back to Linux or if you will stick to Photoshop into the future after<br>your course.<br><br>If the latter then I would suggest struggling through the course with
<br>the tools you will use in the future would allow you to gain more knowledge?<br><br>Just a thought.<br><br>Also, although the later versions don't run too well, PS7 is supported<br>pretty well under Wine:<br><a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=17">
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=17</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Right Colin, and i use it on my Linux box. <br><br>Gilles<br>