![]() What does it look like? I was hoping you would ask… I’ll take you through a walkthrough of creating the Ubuntu logo I made above. All of this is free of charge to the end user. So one of those users who had a tough time with GIMP but liked Photoshop took the source code, reconfigured it slightly to make it easier to use and re-released it. But the code is free for anyone else to look at and use, within particular open source licensing, depending on the license it is released under. I know that I have a completely new respect for GIMP and from open source software.Īnd this is why open-source is good! Here is an excellent application (GIMP) that is very difficult to use for a new or uninitiated user. With the right interface an application can do FAR more for the user than they may have ever expected. And I’m not talking about “what I can do,” I simply mean that the Gimp isn’t such a beast so much as it takes a different approach in the interface to get it done. png format on your computer in your Home/Examples folder named logo-Ubuntu.png. ![]() If you are using Ubuntu you have a copy of the first one in higher resolution in clear. As an exercise take a look at these “before” and “after” shots of an Ubuntu logo I whipped up from something I got off the net…Īnd in about 5 minutes I had whipped this into shape:īoth are clickable thumbnails if you want to look at them in higher resolution. And I was doing it in VERY similar ways to how I was used to doing it in Photoshop. Within minutes and a few quite intuitive clicks I was doing all of the same stuff in GimpShop that I would have been doing in Photoshop under Windows. So much so that I was able to start using GimpShop almost immediately after opening it. Ahh but to have $15,000 USD hanging around.īut why pay when someone else will do it for free… Enter GIMPShop, it’s The Gimp updated to perform much like Photoshop. Heck, it’s so important that Disney paid to have Photoshop ported to Linux. A quick surf of the internet will tell you that almost all Photoshop users who move to GIMP feel the same way. And it hurt!Īpparently I wasn’t the only one. But it was there and it was free, and I thought that if I was going to embrace Linux, I better step up to the plate and live the life. Everything was in different places, things were done differently and the learning curve appeared to be quite steep with less than stellar results. Boy was that ever an exercise in futility for a long time Photoshop user. By “comes with” I mean that it is installed automatically when you install Ubuntu. This worked a little better but it just didn’t feel “right.”Īs an alternative, Ubuntu comes with a free (as in beer) image manipulation program called GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Then I found an article somewhere online (I wish I had a link) that recommended copying your installation directory and registry entries from Windows and forcing them into WINE. There were some errors on startup and it ran kind of sluggish. This would never do, I thought, there has to be a free (as in beer) alternative for LinuxĪt first I tried running Photoshop in WINE by simply installing it. ![]() When I went to screw around with some images the first thing I reached for was Photoshop and realized that I’ll have to boot into Windows just to do it and that would be the only reason I would boot into Windows, for the first time in over 3 weeks. We all know how bloated Adobe PDF can get, but when it comes to photo editing, Photoshop is the king. I’ll let you pick the flavor you will miss, any one of them(6, 7, CS, CS2 and CS3) is an extremely powerful image manipulation application, and the newer the better. I’ll talk about WinAmp later, for now, lets talk Photoshop.īy Photoshop I, of course, mean Adobe’s Photoshop. Some that come to mind include WinAmp and Photoshop. Recently I migrated my current home machine to Linux from Windows for a variety of reasons: Cost, Annoyance, Bugs, Virii and generally inexplicable sluggishness in Windows.Īs with most Windows to Linux converts I soon learned that there are certain applications that I seem to not be able to live without, and unfortunately there are not Linux versions of these same apps. ![]()
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