[Yr7-10it] GIMP photoshop imitations

[Claire Adams]

Bill,

I think it's definitely worthwhile checking out GIMP.  It's free! Who
doesn't love that?  Schools unncessarily fork out heaps of money for
photoediting software when they could be using FOSS instead.
I've worked with GIMP with students 8-10 previously and they seemed to
cope with transfering their skills.
Give it a go yourself before you decide to implement it though.  A
problem I ran into was that other staff members were unaware of GIMP,
so I'd recommend some T&D to make sure that it actually gets used in
all lessons.
I know that when I set my machine to dual boot linux & windoze I end
up ignoring one OS, and that's exactly what the students did with
GIMP. Unless they were reminded of it they 'instinctively' used PShop.
 So I'd recommend getting rid of pShop when you install GIMP on the
school's system(s).
I didn't use an app to make GIMP into a pShop clone - just as we
expect people to transfer their skills from one Word Processor to
another i think we should expect them to transfer their skills from
one image editor to another.

Claire Adams

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> would it be worthwhile checking these out closely?
> anyone done this?
> this would be a free distro and the skill transfer from these to photoshop
> might be quite close
> might provide more leverage for reluctant photoshop addicts to use GIMP?
>
> http://www.gimphoto.com/
>
> GimPhoto + GimPad = free Photoshop alternative
>
> http://www.gimpshop.com/
> "GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation
> Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its
> primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP."
>
> wikipedia says that GimPhoto is based on a more recent GIMP
> GimPhoto - a similar project, that is based on a more up-to-date version of
> the GIMP
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop
>
> --
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
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