As an aside, Photoshop users may find this useful: http://codemills.com/blog/?p=4 [Making GIMP menus more like Photoshop menus] Joseph. -----Original Message----- From: "Craig Box" <craig(a)dubculture.co.nz> To: "'Waikato Linux Users Group'" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:22:40 +1200 Subject: [wlug] fw: GIMP article Was emailled this this morning - as I only made one edit, and am not actually the author, I thought I'd share it with the mailing list. (Another success story!) - Dear Craig, I really loved your November 2004 (update date) Gimp vs Photoshop article which I came across while googling "gimp export pdf." I didn't put two and two together (that postscript files are most easily converted to pdf) until I read your article and was staying away from The Gimp for that reason (would not export to pdf). No matter how obvious it is now, it did not occur to me until your article. So I am going to give The Gimp a try. Thanks! John White _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
As an aside, Photoshop users may find this useful:
http://codemills.com/blog/?p=4 [Making GIMP menus more like Photoshop menus]
Joseph.
-----Original Message----- From: "Craig Box" <craig(a)dubculture.co.nz> To: "'Waikato Linux Users Group'" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:22:40 +1200 Subject: [wlug] fw: GIMP article
Was emailled this this morning - as I only made one edit, and am not actually the author, I thought I'd share it with the mailing list. (Another success story!)
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Dear Craig,
I really loved your November 2004 (update date) Gimp vs Photoshop article which I came across while googling "gimp export pdf." I didn't put two and two together (that postscript files are most easily converted to pdf) until I read your article and was staying away from The Gimp for that reason (would not export to pdf). No matter how obvious it is now, it did not occur to me
until your article. So I am going to give The Gimp a try.
Thanks!
John White
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I personally use the Photoshop keyboard bindings with Gimp. It makes my life easier now as I'm a long time Photoshop user. The only way the Gimp will attract long time Photoshop users to convert is to be more like Photoshop in both function and interface. And I must admit that a lot of the Gimp's default keyboard short cuts make absolutely no sense what-so-ever to me. Some of the names given to things are also far too geeky. Eg, "Convolve". What the hell does Convolve mean. Especially to an artist. Regards On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 00:16 +0000, Joseph Gibbs wrote: oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 » www.deeperdesign.com
Oliver Jones wrote:
I personally use the Photoshop keyboard bindings with Gimp. It makes my life easier now as I'm a long time Photoshop user. The only way the Gimp will attract long time Photoshop users to convert is to be more like Photoshop in both function and interface.
And I must admit that a lot of the Gimp's default keyboard short cuts make absolutely no sense what-so-ever to me. Some of the names given to things are also far too geeky. Eg, "Convolve". What the hell does Convolve mean. Especially to an artist.
One thing I do like about The Gimp is that you can bind shortcut keys on the fly. If you find yourself accessing the same menu heaps, you just hover over the item with the mouse and press the key you want to be bound to it. it then binds that key to that feature so you can press that instead. I often bind f1 -> f5 to things I'm commonly doing "right now" and use that to quickly select things, then later when I'm doing something else I'll rebind them to something else. After a while you end up with a set of key bindings that isn't gimp, photoshop or anything, but a set of keybindings that suits what you're doing. I kinda like it.
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:34 +1200, Perry Lorier wrote:
One thing I do like about The Gimp is that you can bind shortcut keys on the fly. If you find yourself accessing the same menu heaps, you just hover over the item with the mouse and press the key you want to be bound to it. it then binds that key to that feature so you can press that instead. I often bind f1 -> f5 to things I'm commonly doing "right now" and use that to quickly select things, then later when I'm doing something else I'll rebind them to something else. As a side note, this is available in almost all GTK applications (Except where the authors have explicitly turned the behaviour off) Just enable it in Preferences > Menus and Toolbars -> Editable menu accelerators
Alastair -- (o< - A l a s t a i r P o r t e r //\ V_/_ alastair(a)linuxexperience.com
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