Re: [CinePaint] cinepaint vs Gimp

> 
> It all boils down to a matter of attitude.  Some people are committed
> to the spirit of Open Source and will be willing to put up with the
> shortcomings, the roughness, and the inconvenience.  Others have
> expectations that all software should be perfect and omnipotent and
> allow the user to be liberated from all concerns.

Hmmm.  This is a sweeping statement.

At the moment I am, once again, trying to placate my 10 year old 
daughter because the latest game that all her friends are playing won't 
run under linux. She expects her favourite web sites to run poorly, if 
at all, at home.

I spent the last couple of days sorting out her mp3 player and still 
have one or two mount issues.

In our house, we use linux. We don't have a windows machine.  I 
                                     constantly undure the rough edges 
and the nearly-working because I know that there is a net gain with the 
freedom and flexibilty I have.  When I do anything under windows I 
always feel the straight jacket.

However, I need to do professional photo work.  I really, really, really 
try to do as much as I can using gpl software.

My workfow starts with shell scripts to copy my raw files, then 
ufraw-batch, then more shell-scripting for batch ftp, imagemagick to 
batch resize etc., etc.  My website is all gpl and hosted under linux - 
  perl, php, posgres - all hand coded bacause that's what I like.

When I first met cinepaint a couple of years ago, I was impressed - 16 
bit curves vs 8 bit gimp curves - I couldn't believe the difference.

I need to be able to work on multi-layered images using 16 bit mode.

Nothing flash or gimmicky, just lots of layers, layer masks, blend modes 
usually - and it has to be stable - I can't tell a client that he/she 
almost got something, or that if they could wait a week I might be able 
to come up with some kludgy fix.

So I believe that I really _have_ to use Photoshop.

I do this in a virtual machine under linux using vmware - it is less 
than optimal because I can't (or don't know how) to calibrate the 
virtual machine's monitor properly as it is a generic driver.  I still 
view my finished work under linux.

Oh, and I like the gimp interface.


Regards

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