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

[LKH <lkhgraf protonmail com>]

Sorry for the late reply but I noticed this today when going over the mailing list. One significant 
difference to me is that Photoshop supports 10-bit color depth for display output, but as far as I have been 
able to determine, GIMP currently only supports 8-bit.

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On Monday, December 21st, 2020 at 11:53 PM, Δημήτρης Γιάννος via gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list gnome org> 
wrote:

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