Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 23, 2006 03:46 AM
I completely agree. Having used Photoshop for a couple of years now, and gimp long before that, along with Illustrator/inkscape I've come to realize that graphics software reigns in the order of "OS X, Windows then Linux/UNIX".
Color quality controls aren't built into Linux, they are in OS X (in fact they're really quite strange in windows too). That's a massive example of the lack of professional features in Linux and OSS Graphics software.
Another thing is layer styles, I can do something in photoshop that takes 30 seconds, where as in GIMP it take anywhere from 2:30 to 10:00 or even 15:00...that's insane, and really cripples my creativity.
Inkscape doesn't have pathfinder, or the plethora of advanced symbol tools that illustrator has.
Tool != artist, and I realize this, but there's also a lot practical things that have to be taken into consideration, and they just haven't been yet.
I say good bloody luck to anyone who tries this, really OSS needs all the help it can get, but until it's mature enough to use my workflow (which pales in comparison that of many many other professionals out there) I'm sticking with OS X/Windows and Adobe.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 23, 2006 03:46 AMColor quality controls aren't built into Linux, they are in OS X (in fact they're really quite strange in windows too). That's a massive example of the lack of professional features in Linux and OSS Graphics software.
Another thing is layer styles, I can do something in photoshop that takes 30 seconds, where as in GIMP it take anywhere from 2:30 to 10:00 or even 15:00...that's insane, and really cripples my creativity.
Inkscape doesn't have pathfinder, or the plethora of advanced symbol tools that illustrator has.
Tool != artist, and I realize this, but there's also a lot practical things that have to be taken into consideration, and they just haven't been yet.
I say good bloody luck to anyone who tries this, really OSS needs all the help it can get, but until it's mature enough to use my workflow (which pales in comparison that of many many other professionals out there) I'm sticking with OS X/Windows and Adobe.
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