8/3/2023 0 Comments Gimpshop plugin![]() ![]() Since GIMP is open source, there are variants of GIMP (ex: GIMPshop), most all changing the program to run in a single window, in the same way that Photoshop does. GIMP is broken into multiple windows, including the Windows version of the software. ![]() GIMP follows this standard well, except for one major thing. The standards that Photoshop set forth are the options that it offers to edit images. ![]() Photoshop is built so well, in fact, it has become the unofficial standard for other imaging programs, including GIMP. There is no doubt that Photoshop is a very well built program. While most will say that GIMP is not as good as Photoshop, it is good enough to where the remaining questions carry the actual weight. These factors contribute to the ongoing debate of Photoshop vs GIMP: - Is GIMP as good as Photoshop? - Why should I pay for Photoshop when GIMP is free? - What can Photoshop do that GIMP doesn't? - Are the advantages of Photoshop worth the hefty price tag for me? This gives a professional appeal to Photoshop, and makes it ideal for professional image editors, due not only to any aspects of Photoshop that are superior to alternatives, but by being able to associate themselves with the Photoshop name while seeking clients. There could be, and likely is, real, logical, statistical reasons for this, but at least part of this, is Photoshop has a trusted name that IS image editing. GIMP is regarded as a very good image editor and even a free alternative to Photoshop, but never regarded as a replacement. There are alternatives though, and the biggest and best of those is most likely GIMP. Photoshop is very expensive though, and the price is often not worth it to the "average joe" or "average jane" (can't forget the lady geeks!) This is likely the reason it is heavily pirated. ![]() He was the first hacker I met that I knew was better than me.Photoshop is so ingrained in photo-editing, it is used as a verb to describe an edited photo. I've tried googling and looking up Robert (Bob) Parsons a few times over the years and never tracked him down. I was hoping he was going to port elite to the PSION but we lost touch and I have never spoken to him again. His crowning achievement was to build a basic 3D engine for the PSION which he developed from reading some computer science books at the local university library that I found absolutely impenetrable. He then went on to do a Mandelbrot generator for the PSION (which I think had a monochrome screen but if you messed with a lot of machine code you could get shades of gray emulated by quickly flashing the black on and off). I wasted many hours in the my Sixth Form common room playing the game. It was a bit like Worms long before worms was ever invented but much faster action and additive in two player mode against each other. Only, he had it running on his PSION Series 3 PDA and then used the backdrops for a wicked game called (I think) Bobman where you had two little men that battled each other firing weapons that had projectile like motion at each other. A school friend of mine, called Robert Parsons, used a similar algorithm to generate 2D landscapes that look just like Ben's. Seeing the landscape Ben generated instantly brought back so many memories. He has been playing with 2D Fractal Terrains (as you do). Looking forward to getting stuck in to it (just need to finish off installing Beta 2 of VSTS at home). The project itself is really interesting and quite challenging. Take a look at let me know what you think. As ever there is hardly any content at the moment, but there you go - you would expect nothing less from me, it would all be spelt wrong anyway. This site is not the most inspirational design I have ever done, but it is all div / css based, tested in IE 6 and Firefox 1.0.3 and I hope to post a handheld version of the stylesheet shortly. There are a couple of features I would like to add but didn't want to delve too deeply back into the world of php that I haven't touched for at least 4 years, possibly longer. It is ages since I have done a static HTML website and not been messing around with some server side functionality or other. Anyway, I have just uploaded the website for the VSTSEclipse project to sourceforge. We are due a new release of my latest project at work in a couple of weeks and in my spare moments I have been investigating my new play project, a VSTS plugin for Eclipse. Apologies for the lack of posts recently. ![]()
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