Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/17
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Michael Garmisa writes:
> At 09:50 PM 1/16/99 -0300, you wrote:
> >If I could get Photoshop for Linux I'd be there in a minute!
> Have you tried GIMP?
If you're interested in the GIMP, check out www.gimp.org.
Here's some info from the main page:
What is the GIMP
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely
distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring. This site contains
information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing
GIMP. This site also serves as a distribution point for the latest
releases, patches, plugins, and scripts. We also try to provide as
much information about the GIMP community and related projects as
possible.
What`s this site about?
Well, The Gimp is an image manipulation program, written by Peter
Mattis and Spencer Kimball, and released under the GNU General Public
License (GPL). It is a program for UNIX and X. To learn more about
this program, just read on on this page.
It's a pretty neat program. I haven't found it to be a replacement
for Photoshop on the Mac, mostly because there doesn't seem to be a
good concept of color management under the X window system. It has
some great special effects, and if you're a programmer the built-in
extension language (based on Scheme) is very useful for bulk
operations.
It's well worth a look if you're working on Unix-like (including
Linux) systems.
g.