Gimpshop...easier migration from photoshop

[Diabolic Preacher]

http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294

excerpt from the page...

My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the Gimp accessible to
the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. I hope I've done that. And
maybe along the way, I can convert a Photoshop pirate into a Gimp
user.

If you've never used Photoshop before, you may not appreciate my
GIMPshop hack. What I've done is renamed and reorganized GIMP's tools,
options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop's menu
structure and naming conventions. Many of the menu options and even
whole menus were recreated to faithfully reproduce a Photoshop-like
experience. After running my GIMPshop hack, you'll find that Photoshop
and the GIMP are strikingly similar.

Longtime Photoshop users should feel very comfortable using GIMPshop.

GIMPshop is by no means a 1-to-1 copy of Photoshop and you may find
some menu items that are not in perfect order. But GIMPshop's pretty
close, and I think it does the job. I'm getting lots of use out of it
and I hope you do too.
//excerpt ends

those who have used windows version will have noticed the taskbar
clutter gimp creates by having separate windows for the canvas, layers
and tools. gimpshop uses a plugin called the Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer
(http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892).


i got to know about this tool from RBC
(http://rimibchatterjee.net/livelikeaflame) when she found this tool
on her bro's pc to create maps from scratch to illustrate her upcoming
novel.
she thought it was some trial and i thought it's real bad to use an
open source app name and releasing it with restrictions. later on i
searched for and checked that it was open source and assured her about
the freedoms she had. as per her mails next day, she was more than
happy to have discovered this well-hidden new tool. btw her first joy
was when she could directly work on the existing images which were in
photoshop's own format and save them. i still suggested to have
backups in case things go awry. the fact that a photoshop user could
get around the gimpshop workspace without so much as an assistance,
speaks volumes of the efforts put behind the hack.

//quoting her mail (with her permission)...
gimpshop is really good. The toolbox has automated versions of many
things you can only access in photoshop through drop down menus or
keyboard shortcuts, such as transform options.....
....you can
move any slection directly whereas in p you havce to select the move
tool. i discovered this after much cursing and wondering why simple
things didn't work. the gimp options are improvements on p's rather
clunky operations.....    (p = photoshop; gimp = gimpshop, but
gimpshop is really gimp at the core)
....Another cool feature is GIMP automatically limits the
size of your layer to the actual pixels in it, this saves scratch disk
memory. You can also opt to grow the layer to the size of the parent
image if you want. I am still getting the hang of the brush options....

it helps to have feedback from the actual application users.

in other news...puppy 2.10, a 66 mb distro (http://puppylinux.org) my
2 cents (http://pintooo15.livejournal.com/60544.html) now has ntfs
writing capability. tested writing and saving a text file onto a ntfs
partition on a windows xp machine...no damage done and the file opened
perfectly in windows xp. puppy's application loading times with a
little good amount of RAM (512 or a good helping of swap space) are
just too fast. cool thing is the inkscape lite tool which loads in a
flash. adding extra software is much easier in puppy linux. since the
default lacks the development tools (when u see the desktop and the
icon naming conventions...you'll know why), in our dept. lab i could
still use it coz i can connect to the server where our work files are
stored using shell access and use the compiler tools from there.

now if someone can suggest GIMP tutorials for photoshoppers...

-- 
Diabolic Preacher
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