Have you heard of Gimpshop. What is it? Why use it?
- Once, again, it is free.
- Uses the GIMP - Photo Editor. Also free.
- The interface is tailored very similar, not identical though, to Photoshop's Menu Layout.
- If you want to buy Adobe's Photoshop - you can. It'll set you back several hundred bucks. I try to stay away form it, myself.
- It's upgrading - this version, that version, that version, another version. Which kills you.
My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the Gimp accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. I hope I’ve done that. And maybe along the way, I can convert a Photoshop pirate into a Gimp user.
If you’ve never used Photoshop before, you may not appreciate my GIMPshop hack. What I’ve done is renamed and reorganized GIMP’s tools, options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions.
GIMPshop is by no means a 1-to-1 copy of Photoshop and you may find some menu items that are not in perfect order. But GIMPshop’s pretty close, and I think it does the job. I’m getting lots of use out of it and I hope you do too.
Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Glen
