Graphics guru analyzes the GIMP

Kelly McNeill writes “Anyone who follows open source news has undoubtedly heard the proclamations from this community, suggesting that The Gimp — among other open source graphics applications, — has opened doors to operating systems such as Linux and BSD, as a means of expansion into the advertising and design sector. Despite being a great admirer of Linux and similar Unix operating systems, I took these proclamations from the open-source community with a grain of salt, as my experience with Adobe’s products has given me a bias toward the company’s incredible implementations of the graphics applications I use on a daily basis. Before installation of the open-source graphics software, I admit my skepticism levels were extremely high, but after only an hour of experimentation with the software, I came away extremely impressed. “