Who knows Gimp and Photoshop enough to compare booth tools?

These Programs does the same thing.
All of they have a tangled gui
The same powerfull functions
the Gimp have scripting interface

The Gimp is Free Software it costs about ... a donation if you like
Photoshop is a propetary program, it costs about 500$

I use the GIMP 2.0.4 for Linux, Photoshop 7 for Windows.

Comparison, well they both do exactly what I need and I can't really compare them other than they both have different ways for doing one thing than another, Photoshop maybe easier to navigate, due to spending more time around Windows than Linux but in the end, they both do what I want and I can't complain. Photoshop 7 takes a lot longer time to load on Windows though.

I had to learn GIMP, which I didn't mind, considering that I've dedicated most my work on Linux now.

They are both powerful graphic programs and if I had to choose one over the other, I would have to say GIMP as cost wise should be considered in this, as they both perform the same things, or can perform the same. A simple graphic alteration should not take forever to load in my opinion and Photoshop uses quite a lot of resources.

SYSTEM SPECS of both machines (used only for animation/graphics)

Dual PIII 1GHz
2GB SDRAM PC133
GeForce FX6800 GT AGP 8x 256MB GDDR
200GB ATA133 HDD 8MB Cache


Cheers, MC

personally, i'd stick to photoshop. but that's just because i'm used to it. and i don't like the seperate windows in gimp. and how most of the tools are only reachable by rightclick.
and i like the fact that it's easy to find brushes and stuff for ps
+ it's more user friendly
+ more ready-to-use effects

but gimp is indeed less heavy for your computer. it's powerfull, but you have to do more on your own. well, i'm not really sure. i haven't really tried to master it as i've got ps and i don't feel the need to learn gimp.

one thing i like about ps is how you can make slices with imageready and then export it to a html table! that's really cool!

hm, i was working in linux last night and tried out gimp again. i didn't know they had a version 2! it rocks! really. so much better than version 1

i guess you'll still find more brushes and filters on the net for ps, but gimp has improved a lot. if you want to stay legal and you make your brushes & filters yourself, and want to save a lot of money, gimp is really cool!

there is a big difference, the price

Exactly, for the rest of us who cannot afford the hundreds of bucks for Photoshop, GIMP is a very good tool that more or less has the same functions as PS but is free.

Well, someone recommended GIMP to me, but personally I still really want Photoshop. The GIMP to me is hard to navigate, and I'd just be better off with Photoshop. I don't like how it's seperated and everything .. I don't know, it's just confusing. Then when you try to open a file, you have to know the exact name because it doesn't show a preview, so that kind of sucks.