Adobe has a Creative Suite with a unified look and feel that is very easy to work with for people who daily work with the Adobe Creative Suite programs.
Whilst many Layer effects can be acheived in GIMP using GEGL this technique is rather un-userfriendly and makes effects such as self shadowing unnecessarily convoluted.
i would rename 'documentation for the GIMP' to 'GIMP help'.
this change will position the software directly beneath the GIMP programme, which makes it easier to find. no need to scroll down in the list. simply grouped together.
Written by dragoninsane the 16 Jul 08 at 13:56.
New
Tabs allows us to quick navigation to files,features,docks,pallete,brushes etc,adding tabs to make it look better than Photoshop,here is a mockup
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GIMP+3?content=49951
Hope developers listen.If there are plenty of Windows docking
inside single window and treating all windows inside on big window is solution.also there should be a property in "Windows" menu like
windows>>reset docks to original location,reset pallete,reset
presets for brushes etc.
We are constantly discussing the relative benefits of open source software when compared to its commercial counterparts, and GIMP has somewhat become the posterboy for this ideology as it compares very favorably to Photoshop the industry standard software for image processing.
However, GIMP suffers from several omissions which mean that many professionals cannot see it as a viable alternative and as such cannot make the switch to linux.
The most obvious of these is the inability to edit in CMYK as opposed to RGB making GIMP impractical for individuals making images for print as opposed to digital distribution.
with the new programs for digital painting like: painter or artweaver have show us a better way to make digital paint.
gimp is good as photo manipulation program, but i see he has the capability to become a greate paint program to. To become a great painting program he needs to give rapid acess to brush size and a fine color selection palet
Lots of brushes in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes by default. It's really annoying having to browse the web for hours just to find some interesting brushes. I'd like to have a bunch of'em (maybe even a 100 or 1000) by default :)
I am using the GIMP for a while now and although you have to get used to it, it is fine for pretty much everything. There is one thing in photoshop cs3 however, that I always need to boot to windows for; photomerge.
This function merges photo's together so you can get beautiful panorama's from several pictures. I love it! This should be an option in the GIMP as well.
I know there is something called "hugin" for the GIMP which claims to do the same. It is however in no way comparable.