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    Thumbs up New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    Nice review of the new version of GIMP at Webmonkey.com
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    Re: New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    Thanks for that - I have always found GIMP pretty good - even in its previous incarnations. For what I need, photoshop is ridiculous overkill!
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    Re: New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    Fantabulous.. shame 16bit is only experimental though.

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    Re: New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    I'm lucky that I have CS2, but the only thing I really use that for that the GIMP doesn't do perfectly is RAW conversion...

    Almost all other tasks that I need to do can be done with the GIMP, however the UI is still not the most intuitive thing in the world. But being fair, neither is photoshop's!

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    Re: New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    (greenend?)

    Try the new UI, it's apparently much more intuitive, though my first install borked so I'm going to try again to see if it's better. I convert RAW using other programs now then import to the Gimp.

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    Re: New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    Never used the full application but I use the Gimp portable from a Pen drive installation from portableapps.com, nothing else will do when you need to edit images!

    Think I might just download this and give it a go!!

    Thanks for the heads up.

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    Re: New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    Pertable Apps looks fantastic, thanks for that

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    Re: New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    No Prob at all! Funkstar

    sorry for being slightly off topic! 0iD

    If your on the move around different computers and you need some personal tools and files I use all the following and give them all 10/10.

    Mozilla Firefox (portable Edition) keeps all data on pen not on the local machine, BM, cookies and history etc
    Abiword (simple but very effective word processor). Opens most common formats.
    Audacity (sound recording software from any source on your PC). Can convert to lots of formats (even MP3) utilising a few external links.
    Command Prompt. As the name suggests!
    Coolplayer Portable (portable music format player).
    Gimp (nothing else will do! and its free!).
    FileZilla (for FTP and and other stuff).
    InfraRecorder (Disc burning tool on your pen drive).
    Keepass (tool for saving all your passwords).
    Mplayer (plays alot of video formats).
    Notepad ++ (simple text editor for editing coding and scripts).
    Kompozer (nice HTML editor).
    Pidgeon (keep track of all folks on Yahoo, MSN and more)
    Stellarium (bloody amazing if your into astronomy).
    Virtual Dub (converting video formats)

    and a few games! all for less than 500Mb respect and gratitude go out to the folks that create and distribute there skills!

    Check em out! http://portableapps.com/

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    Re: New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money

    Neat, I'll have to update. Still, I've preferred Paint.Net for quite some time now.

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