hi Claire,<br><br>I've been using GIMP for years but have not made much headway in getting other teachers to pick it up, especially the art teachers who regard photoshop as their bread and butter - hence my request for feedback re the GIMP photoshop emulators, if anyone has used them<br>
<br>We can still put it on a free CD which can be borrowed in the Resource Centre<br><br>cheers<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Claire Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:claire.e.adams@gmail.com">claire.e.adams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bill,<br>
<br>
I think it's definitely worthwhile checking out GIMP. It's free! Who<br>
doesn't love that? Schools unncessarily fork out heaps of money for<br>
photoediting software when they could be using FOSS instead.<br>
I've worked with GIMP with students 8-10 previously and they seemed to<br>
cope with transfering their skills.<br>
Give it a go yourself before you decide to implement it though. A<br>
problem I ran into was that other staff members were unaware of GIMP,<br>
so I'd recommend some T&D to make sure that it actually gets used in<br>
all lessons.<br>
I know that when I set my machine to dual boot linux & windoze I end<br>
up ignoring one OS, and that's exactly what the students did with<br>
GIMP. Unless they were reminded of it they 'instinctively' used PShop.<br>
So I'd recommend getting rid of pShop when you install GIMP on the<br>
school's system(s).<br>
I didn't use an app to make GIMP into a pShop clone - just as we<br>
expect people to transfer their skills from one Word Processor to<br>
another i think we should expect them to transfer their skills from<br>
one image editor to another.<br>
<br>
Claire Adams<br>
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Bill Kerr <<a href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> would it be worthwhile checking these out closely?<br>
> anyone done this?<br>
> this would be a free distro and the skill transfer from these to photoshop<br>
> might be quite close<br>
> might provide more leverage for reluctant photoshop addicts to use GIMP?<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.gimphoto.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gimphoto.com/</a><br>
><br>
> GimPhoto + GimPad = free Photoshop alternative<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.gimpshop.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gimpshop.com/</a><br>
> "GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation<br>
> Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its<br>
> primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP."<br>
><br>
> wikipedia says that GimPhoto is based on a more recent GIMP<br>
> GimPhoto - a similar project, that is based on a more up-to-date version of<br>
> the GIMP<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop</a><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Bill Kerr<br>
> <a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/</a><br>
><br>
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