Re: [Gimp-user] Asking for comparison to Photoshop, pretty please!

[Δημήτρης Γιάννος <aclassifiedmail gmail com>]

  Oh, I also forgot the part about Photoshop being available for Tablets
and phones. Could there be similar plans for GIMP?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 9:53 AM Δημήτρης Γιάννος <aclassifiedmail gmail com>
wrote:

>  Hello,
>  The last day I've been looking at various reviews of GIMP compared to
> Photoshop (on the image editing aspect only, as I know GIMP does not focus
> on anything else), yet none seem satisfying enough: they are being a bit
> vague with not many specific examples. I have seen some giving specific
> examples for brushes, selection tools and... generally editing tools, but
> I'm still not sure whether to trust them, because most people write reviews
> without actually learning GIMP in such depth as Photoshop.
>
>  In short, they say GIMP lacks the convenience that Photoshop provides on
> how to handle tools and brushes. And also, they say the GUI is nicer over
> at Photoshop, but I cannot guarantee that.
>
>  On the other hand, I have heard that GIMP has actually been easier to use
> and learn and more flexible than Photoshop. They say GIMP is actually
> greater at photo editing than Photoshop is.
>
>  You can really see that opinions vary so much, I really don't what to
> conclude. Lastly, as I am really clueless about photo editing, I will refer
> to the Adobe Photoshop website which contains some short videos (gifs?)
> that show how photoshop works. They gave me the impression that the
> software works really smoothly (might be false of course, because of its
> size) and that it's really simple if you know what you are looking for.
> Could GIMP be like that too?
>
>  I really don't know and that's why I ask you, who seem to have a lot of
> experience at such, photo editing, software like Photoshop. So, again,
> looking only at the photo editing aspect of Photoshop, what kind of things
> (tools,brushes, file formats, UI-related) do you think that Photoshop can
> handle better/worse than GIMP? I planned to make this mail short but failed
> miserably so if you made it this far, I appreciate it!
>
>  Just a fan of FOSS and (GNU)Linux,
>  Dimitris Giannos