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I know that one of the largest complaints from Photoshop users about The Gimp is the retraining time needed. Without going into the fact that you can get The Gimp in win32 anyway, or without discussing relative merits of the two applications, if you are doing a course on graphic design, and The Gimp will do everything you need, then why not use it?
Well first I have to say I agree with your basic point here but I really think this is a bad example. Gimp may have the same basic functionality as Photoshop but it's nowhere near as usable. Dropping a newbie in Gimp would put them off the Graphic Design industry for life. Besides, most books on the subject refer to Photoshop's implementation. I agree this is not ideal but until Gimp improves and other factors (like books, etc) are addressed I don't think anything will change. That said Gimp can be very handy at times and certainly isn't lacking functionality.
Just using 1c here. Never know when I might need the other 1c.
Recent version of The Gimp have changed the useability a lot, for instance by making the "right click" menu permanently dock'd into the top of the image window by default, which tends to avoid the "what on earth do I do now?" problem. - -- You will lose an important disk file. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Only when you are sure they have you, can you stop being paranoid iD8DBQE/SUA0cAgRpy8z8UQRAuy1AJ93EZtQKFet0SslURWmFRAdRRh6bgCgno0G SjK0waRkYKJlZdlIz7VLgOk= =dJMD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----