Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp in private schools and educational institutions

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 04/29/2015 02:47 PM, Nathan Summers wrote:
> > >We do not make GIMP to compete against Photoshop.
> > >
> > >GIMP_is_  used at schools. Also, USA is not the only country in the world.
> > >Not even the largest one out there.
> > >
> So our target audience is non-English speaking photographic
> professionals that don't already like Photoshop?  I just don't see
> that as a very big niche.
The GIMP Vision briefing (http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Vision_briefing) 
says GIMP is for "high-end photo manipulation . . .  for intense use . . 
. intense in the number of hours users put in to really master the 
tools; this is exactly the same as the centuries old process of how 
people, through apprenticeship, master a certain craft"

If GIMP isn't competing with PhotoShop for high end users, what software 
is currently used by the core users that GIMP is targeting? Are all of 
them already using GIMP?

Digital artists have Krita which competes with and in many ways is much 
better than PhotoShop, as former PhotoShop users will attest.

To have a viable free/libre alternative to PhotoShop with its 
proprietary file format and cloud-based access, photographers *need* 
high bit depth GIMP to compete with and be better than PhotoShop.

Best,
Elle