Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

[Joel Rees <joel rees gmail com>]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Mark Morin wrote:
>
> > Photoshop is not the gold standard by which all other programs are to be
> > evaluated.
>
> It is. Sadly so.

Speaking without metaphor:

Gold standards only exist in  the minds of those who think gold standards exist.

Speaking in metaphor:

For those willing to use a different currency, gold is just another
metal with some really useful properties that is harder to get access
to because people want to use it for something it is not.

> > One could just as legitimately ask why photoshop's UI is not
> > like gimp's
>
> 1. Photoshop predates GIMP by 10+ years

For real graphics artists, Adobe is a latecomer and still an outsider.

> 2. GIMP contributors specifically copied some of its features in the past.

Most of those features well predate Adobe and the software they built
Photoshop's original version on top of.

> Would you like to reconsider your point? :)
>
> > Gimp is not nor ever was and never will be a "free version of photoshop."
>
> True.
>
> Alex

:-)

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