Editing Software Progression

I'm getting involved in digital photography and would appreciate some ideas
about photo editing software. Judging by this group and by the books on the
shelf at my local bookstore, Adobe's Photoshop seems to be the strong
favorite for software of this type. I have Photoshop Elements (ver 1) and
plan to start with that, with the idea to upgrade to the full version of
Photoshop when the appropriate time comes. Is this a good approach or
should I consider going directly to Photoshop instead?

- Magnusfarce

Roland Karlsson wrote:

Wald wrote in
27.12:

Why not try The GIMP?

Because it is only 8 bit and has no color management?

Why not try CinePaint then (= ex-FilmGIMP)?

From the website (http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net):

* 8/16/32-bits of color per channel (up to 128-bits RGBA)

Just thought you might be interested...

Regards,
Wald

CinePaint ?

Last I heard ... it was still mostly a Beta ... and not
available as a pre-compiled Windows Executable.

Regarding both "The GIMP" and CinePaint:

Both of these programs are approaching being quite capable
.... but in reality are "Hacker's Delights."

Do not get involved with them unless you own ... and know
how to use ... a "Compiler."

"RSD99" wrote:

CinePaint ?

Last I heard ... it was still mostly a Beta ... and not
available as a pre-compiled Windows Executable.

Regarding both "The GIMP" and CinePaint:

Both of these programs are approaching being quite capable
... but in reality are "Hacker's Delights."

Do not get involved with them unless you own ... and know
how to use ... a "Compiler."

Well... opinions differ, I guess :-)

Regards,
Wald

Roland Karlsson wrote:

Unfortunately - they currently have no stable Windows release
and it is not planned before Q4 2004. Thats now! But ... as they
still say that; it is probabaly not Q4 2004, but rather sometime
2005.

I'm not quite getting this. Are you talking about the next Windows,
Longhorn? In that case, it's even worse: it's planned for Q4 2006, so count
on 2007 at the earliest :-)

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...rget2006PR.asp

Regards,
Wald

"RSD99" wrote in news:5%Zad.5244$YU4.1917@trnddc06:

Regarding both "The GIMP" and CinePaint:

Both of these programs are approaching being quite capable
... but in reality are "Hacker's Delights."

Do not get involved with them unless you own ... and know
how to use ... a "Compiler."


I'm not sure why you say that -- we use the precompiled versions of The
GIMP on several windows machines at work and it's just fine for about any
general image editing tasks. If it worked with a tablet, it would be
suitable for many more.

Bob

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Wald wrote in
27.12:

I'm not quite getting this. Are you talking about the next Windows,
Longhorn? In that case, it's even worse: it's planned for Q4 2006, so
count on 2007 at the earliest :-)


No - I am talking about the next stabel Windows release
of CinePaint. Stable releases of Windows I have stopped
waiting for already


/Roland

"RSD99" writes:

Regarding both "The GIMP" and CinePaint:
Both of these programs are approaching being quite capable
... but in reality are "Hacker's Delights."

Do not get involved with them unless you own ... and know
how to use ... a "Compiler."

What do you base that on? Being able to add new features, or change
existing ones, is indeed an advantage of software you can get the source
for. But there's no need to.

I write software all day, using complilers for several different
machines, so I certainly have access to a compiler. But I have
installed the standard Windows binary distribution of The Gimp, using
its installer, and never felt the need to look at the source yet.
It works without any "hacking".

Dave