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Mr Myaghi
11-25-2001, 06:16 PM
Gimp is the linux equivalent to photoshop, but what about illustrator? I need a good drawing program for linux, are there any?

What do you think about photoshop vs gimp. I think photoshop 6 is much better than gimp but gimp is good compared to the earlier versions.
saithan
11-25-2001, 06:33 PM
I agree that photoshop is better. But I have fun with gimp. And give gimp some time as it develops it will only get better.
Convert
11-25-2001, 09:18 PM
killustrator is good
Mr Myaghi
12-04-2001, 06:05 PM
Has anyone tested sketch?
Jomboni
12-04-2001, 06:52 PM
Gimp is good up until you need something for heavy professional use. For me, who only needs it to create some graphics for my web page, it's perfect. Easy to use and it has all the features I need (except .gif support.... grrrr, but I guess it's understandable.) It's also bunches faster than Photoshop.
otheos
12-05-2001, 08:25 AM
except .gif support

gif is proprietary and carries royalties, contrary to the spirit of open source. PNG is the preferred alternative, gives smaller sizes, better quality, it's free and best of all: gives a hard time to Windows users as Iexplorer does not ( read refuses to ) support it.

I use PNG for all my uses and all complaints from IE users are just handled by a "Upgrade to Mozilla/Opera" statement.
mrBen
12-05-2001, 09:01 AM
Erm, I use IE for surfing (winmodem) and it seems to view all the pngs I put on my webpages fine.
sans-hubris
12-05-2001, 09:31 AM
Originally posted by Convert:
<STRONG>killustrator is good</STRONG>
Erm, it's kalled Kontour (http://www.koffice.org/kontour/) now.
Jomboni
12-05-2001, 06:25 PM
Originally posted by otheos:
<STRONG>gif is proprietary and carries royalties, contrary to the spirit of open source. PNG is the preferred alternative, gives smaller sizes, better quality, it's free and best of all: gives a hard time to Windows users as Iexplorer does not ( read refuses to ) support it.

I use PNG for all my uses and all complaints from IE users are just handled by a "Upgrade to Mozilla/Opera" statement.</STRONG>Err... I want everybody to be able to view my website. It's my band's page. I don't want exclusively Linux users to know about my band, because there just aren't that many.
Derango
12-06-2001, 09:07 AM
Originally posted by mrBen:
<STRONG>Erm, I use IE for surfing (winmodem) and it seems to view all the pngs I put on my webpages fine.</STRONG>

Yea, IE Was one of the first browsers to support PNG, IIRC