On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, Ken Springer wrote:
On 6/9/13 10:54 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:On 06/09/2013 12:00 PM, Ken Springer wrote:On 6/9/13 8:11 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:The Linux magazine ”Linux Format” compared image editors in their LXF171 issue. The combatabts were GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, MyPaint and Pinta. MyPaint won the user interface round, but was worst in a few categories, such as text support, user interface customisability, multimedia and animation. ”Winner” was Krita, then Inkscape, Gimp, MyPaint and Pinta.To me, this is muddying the waters of what an image editing program is. Image editing means manipulating a bitmap at the pixel level. Those would be Gimp, Photoshop, etc. Inkscape is a vector drawing program, such as Corel Draw and any CAD program. Totally different animals, and to compare them in one test is, to me, wrong if not bogus.Well, you need both pixel and vector based graphics packages. Yes they are like comparing apples and oranges, but both are needed in your list of graphic editing packages, along with some people needing CAD and Visio/Dia diagramming packages. I also would include a good photo stitching package. I use ICE on Windows [free from Microsoft], but I have not looked into one for Ubuntu.Agreed on all points. Although I'd say a good bitmap editor would do the stitching just fine if you choose to take time to do it. I used to do that with scans from a hand scanner in my Atari computing days.But, to compare them? That would be like calling a Kenworth and a Ferrari racing cars. LOL
can you clarify this for me - suppose I have a set of purposes, e.g. altering color, inserting text, cropping, what have you; is it unreasonable to compare 'different animals' in respect of ease of use and quality of results in relation to specific ends like this?
(btw I compare apples to oranges all the time and indeed I prefer one to the other. I don't call them both 'citrus fruit' though, I do call them 'fruit' or food (actually, breakfast).)
why can't we compare "different animals" according to specific ends? F. >
The problem is finding an easy one to learn and use that has all the need features you might require.This applies to any piece of software, not just graphics software. But you have to take the time to research other options, work with them enough to see which is the best tool for the job, and then use that tool.I'm doing a personal research project that will result in something printed, just not sure what. To get everything done, Writer and any other word processor I've ever used, just plain sucks. Scrivener, OTOH, is looking super promising. At the moment, the printed output is the current concern. I've just been using it for the last two weeks, not constantly of course, but I am impressed. And no, I'm not doing a movie or stage script. LOLThat eye opening situation with Scrivener, now makes me want to try out LyX. http://www.lyx.org/HomePaint Shop Pro 5 was that for me, but it would not install on Win7 Home Premium, which came with my laptop [but will install on Win7 Professional]. Been using PSP5 for something like 10 years. PSP X5 is not as easy to use, since the company wanted to compete with Photoshop since version 8 or 9, so the learning curve started to increase. We all have our specific needs and ability to deal with the learning curves of the different image/graphics editors. Some are good, some are bad. Some are easy but not many features, but some are feature rich and hard to use. There was a version of GIMP called GIMPshop that was a "hack" to try and make GIMP easier to use. I think it was a Windows only package though.
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