Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 12, 2006 07:02 AM
Granted, I am not a professional, I just use the GIMP for minor photo-editing tasks. And I have certainly found some command line tools (e.g. ImageMajik (spelling?) more helpful sometimes.
I have mixed feelings about the functionality and documentation of the GIMP. There is a lot of functionality which I don't understand. But for the basics, between trial and error and Googling, I have been able to figure out what I need to know.
So, yes, I would agree this must be comparative. Having absolutely nothing else (except CLI tools) to compare it to, I find the GIMP to be one of the thousands of free software applications which is fun, full of goodness, and for which I am very grateful to the developers who work so hard on all of these various wonderful Linux tools. It's all good, even when it's bad, if you know what I mean.
But if I was comparing it with something else, well, then maybe I wouldn't be so impressed. Right now, I am very impressed by the GIMP.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 12, 2006 07:02 AMI have mixed feelings about the functionality and documentation of the GIMP. There is a lot of functionality which I don't understand. But for the basics, between trial and error and Googling, I have been able to figure out what I need to know.
So, yes, I would agree this must be comparative. Having absolutely nothing else (except CLI tools) to compare it to, I find the GIMP to be one of the thousands of free software applications which is fun, full of goodness, and for which I am very grateful to the developers who work so hard on all of these various wonderful Linux tools. It's all good, even when it's bad, if you know what I mean.
But if I was comparing it with something else, well, then maybe I wouldn't be so impressed. Right now, I am very impressed by the GIMP.
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