Saturday, February 28, 2015
Leaving Adobe Photoshop
When I started photo editing in 1995 (I was 14 years old), I was intrigued by the programs available: Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, CorelDRAW. To be honest, I wanted to own Photoshop but it's greedy nature made me go for the best price to feature choice, PaintShop Pro. For $99 it was a steal compared to Adobe Photoshop at $600, and I made my use of it for years. It wasn't until I was able to score a copy of Photoshop from Gamespy as a content writer, that I fell in love with it, just never felt it was worth the price.
These days, of the three mentioned, only Photoshop is worth anything and a graphic designer specializing in CorelDRAW or PaintShop Pro is as laughable as a car enthusiast saying the Ford Pinto is the best built vehicle ever made. OK, to be honest, Corel acquired PaintShop Pro in 2004, bastardized it, and made both pieces of software beyond crap.
But now... there's a new player in town, GIMP. GIMP.org is, in my opinion, the best option, and you know the price? FREE. It also works on LINUX and UNIX (along with Windows and Mac OS, something no other main program can do). As a former teacher of Photoshop, I can say that there is literally nothing GIMP can not do that Photoshop can, especially with moderate Google searching skills. If you want to pirate Photoshop, don't, just head over to gimp.org and get yourself the equivalent, for free. Used to Photoshop menus? Head over to GIMPShop which emulates Photoshops menus.
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