See that is the point. People think they're better off pirating photoshop because it's capable of more. While in fact, they should be more concerned about usability for an image editing program.

I think it's safe to assume that people who ask advice on which version to use aren't as computer literate as us geeks. Otherwise they'd check feature lists and screenshots on usability, or videos (which are plenty). Save them the trouble of pirating a version, downloading more, and looking more for the right tools and how to use them.

And yes, photoshop must be one of the most pirated programs ever. But it does help to keep Adobe's formats 'standard'. Still I think people shouldn't proscribe photoshop that much to "the lesser geeks". Ease of use is the rule here for them.

I've never actually used gimp, infact i'm still using photoshop cs1. I havn't had the time to upgrade and cs1 does just fine.
I'm not exactly sure what features gimp has etc but i know that the photoshop i have does exactly what i need. I usually don't change programs unless something stuffs up or i need other features.
So that means i'll be sticking with photoshop cs1 for a while. When i need to change i'll try out gimp and see what its like.

-HellFire

On the matter of CS1/CS2, you're not missing out much. CS2 improvements, for me personally, was a user-friendlieer way of applying filters (instead of freezing for a few seconds, photoshop now shows a loading bar when applying a heavier filter). To point out a single, of the few improvements. The rest is quite the same, and a few other apps are added, like the adobe bridge.
Which I've never used and prolly never will use either.

I would rather prefer Photoshop, because of the many abilities it has. Such as more filters that GIMP does not have, the ability to install your own brushes.

GIMP, I don't like it because it dosen't have enough designing capabilities that Photoshop has.

I only started to use GIMP because it was the only free graphics program I could find, but Photoshop, has changed the way I think about graphics designing.

I vote for Photoshop, because its t3h secks.

I really like GIMP, I've been using linux for a while so I haven't had much of a choice, but there isn't anything in photoshop that I've done that I haven't been able to do in GIMP. If you're used to photoshop you might need some time to get used to the new interface, but it is just as powerful as photoshop. The thing I don't like is that people assume just because it's free that means that it isn't as powerful as some coastly software, which is just wrong. I could go on forever but I wont bore you but it really is just as powerful, the interface might seem diffrent, but that doesn't mean worse. but to end it I'll just say IT'S FREE, TRY IT
Its alot better than stealing or paying $600 for PS.

This post has been edited by hollyhogan: Mar 1 2007, 10:30 AM