![]() For those with a Windows version of the app, getting Photoshop to run suitably, if at all, under WINE in Linux is frustrating at best. ![]() Alas, it is very costly and not available in a free Linux version. Perhaps the gold standard bearer in that category is Photoshop. But few programs tooled for the Linux environment offer the professional-strength options of high-end commercial photo manipulation software. Some of them received favorable reviews in the annals of Linux Picks and Pans - for example, Shotwell, FSpot and GIMP. Linux users have an impressive cache of photo editing tools available. As great as the concept of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is, not every Linux software package serves the greater good. But my experience this week laid bare a larger issue. I usually set aside badly performing open source products when I test them rather than waste readers’ time with negative reviews. The other driving factor was my desire to produce graphics for a project consuming too much of my time without retreating to that other operating system. One aspect was my weekly quest for software to review for this column. But my disappointment in not finding salvation from resorting to a return to Microsoft Windows caused me to question my decision years ago to convert to Linuxism.Īll of this stemmed from a two-part need. Newer extensions either won't work well with GIMPshop, or they won't work at all.Actually, my faith in the Linux OS is still intact. The newer version loads faster, processes images faster, has a cleaner layout, refined tools, and comes with better preloaded plug-ins. Also, the current GIMPshop is built off of an older GIMP. This has the great benefit of making many of Photoshop's tutorials applicable to this GIMP and Photoshop mashup."Īlthough the bogarting of Photoshop tutorials is cool, the BackgroundWindow plug-in isn't the most stable. It also renames most of GIMP's unique terminology with labels more familiar to Photoshop users. Using plug-ins, it unifies the separate editing panes of the GIMP under one main window, so that the program functions similarly to every other standard app. " GIMPshop is a remixed version of the open source, free GIMP image editor. Gimpshop 2.8 is available for most operating systems, imcluding Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. Its primary purpose was to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP. GIMPshop was a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Also, if anyone has a valid alternative to this ( some other interface which makes GIMP easier to understand, for example ), I'm really begging on my knees to know it ! If there's really no possibility to download it, I would just like to know it so that I won't spend the next few days looking for it and put my heart at peace. Is there anyone who can at least tell me if GIMPshop is still there to be used or if the project is just dead and there's no trace of it left ? That would still be quite weird to me, because, usually, the older versions are *always* there. Now, I've been looking for this for days and all I could find was a dispute between the original coder and someone who decided to open a "fanpage" and an old tutorial which doesn't lead to anything really. Then, salvation !, I discovered there was something called "GIMPshop", which basically transformrs the GIMP interface and turns it into one similar to that of Photoshop. I'm horribly lazy and I can't understand many of the features and names of GIMP, but that's also probably because I have been using it's not-so-free counterpart for almost 12 years. I'm a really intense user of Photoshop, so, when I switched to Linux, I told myself that I would just switch to GIMP and get over it, but. I even managed, much to my surprise, to install the required drivers for my g330 headset with almost no problem. I didn't have a single problem running Linux Mint ( currentling running Mint 16 Petra with the Cinnamon interface ). I had to make this clear because I don't want to make anyone's head explode, so sorry in advance if I won't understand your probably super-simple explanations ! First of all, Hi everyone, I'm totally new here and also totally new to Linux, and that's why I chose to use the Mint distro, since a bunch of friends of mine told me it's the most user friendly atm.
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