Re: GIMP vs. CS4

["Richard Vallon Jr." <rvallon@cox.net>]

Feel free to shoot holes in this point- but I read MANY years ago  
(1997-98) that the first incarnation of Gimp
duplicated nearly all of  PhotoShop 3 (NOT CS3) ( 1995?) features  
which included layers...
At this time PhotoShop had moved on to either version 4 or 5- so it  
seemed Gimp was
not even a 3rd place contender....
Like I said- please feel free to correct as Robert Palmer was signing  
"Your gonna have to face it - your addicted
to digital imaging" way back then...
On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Gary W Marklund wrote:

> Christoph,
> I just opened my GIMP 2.6.2 under Linux and it has layers.
> Gary
>
>
> On Saturday 14 March 2009 09:25:35 am Christoph Hammann wrote:
> > Last time I looked, the Gimp didn't do layers. Most image files I  
> > open
> > in Photoshop get layers and layer masks added to them, so ...
> > But that omission may have changed, anyone know better?
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> > --
> > I hate to be the one who brings this news to the tribe, but the
> > Internet does one thing. It speeds up the retrieval and dissemination
> > of information, and only that. All the rest is Digibabble.
> > Tom Wolfe
> >
> > Am 14.03.2009 um 10:25 schrieb Barry Kleider <bkleider@sihope.com>:
> > > With all the discussion about CS4 -- has anyone tried Gimp?
> > >
> > > GIMP is the open source freebie available for free at
> > >
> > > http://files.uberdownloads.com/apps/gimp/index.php
> > >
> > > Just curious if anyone has reviewed it and what are the pros and  
> > > cons.
> > >
> > >
> > > Barry