Most of the Inkscape tuts I came across were cutesy stuff or semi-professional. I know Inkscape hasn’t been around for long but a community that declares itself a competitor without even getting past the 0.999.999.999.9.1 (build 99832 Alpha 3 RC 98) stage surely speaks loads. It was more my fault than the community’s but here was another game-changer – the community tutorials.

Deciding to weather the storm and master it nonetheless, I still got stuck. I installed Inkscape and it looked dreadful. My Inkscape vs Illustrator journey wasn’t even much of a journey. You get what you pay for, in GIMP’s case you get more than what you pay for. That pretty much sums up the entire Photoshop vs GIMP competition. There might be a way to recreate Photoshop’s stroke effect in GIMP but that would take me at least ten minutes of googling.

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Here are the results of stroking a font in PS and in Illustrator. Yes, there are adjustments and plugins to make it look like Photoshop but why do I need to do that? GIMP awfully feels as if it is different for the sake of being different.Īs to why GIMP falls short even with the simplest task, a picture can speak a thousand words. Too many buttons, too many windows and too many things hidden. The GIMP interface is awfully confusing for a beginner. Quite well, however, is not good enough when it comes to a professional environment.įor me, only one thing was a game changer- Photoshop knew what I wanted to do. Nonetheless, GIMP manages simple photo manipulation quite well. Notably because Photoshop wouldn’t run on my old Intel Pentium M machine. I myself have used GIMP for the past five years. Mind you, I am not condescending, a free software that can actually threaten a multi-million dollar program like Photoshop is not only doing well but is also setting an example.

New feature in software X has been in open source software Y for years.ĭavid vs Goliath stories are sure as hell interesting, and GIMP has been clawing at Photoshop’s ankles for years.

Would you rather pay $400 when you can get the job done with a few more clicks?.

Open source hipsters have a million arguments when it comes to using open source software, and these are the common arguments:

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