keerthi Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Hi!Friends,Can you please let me know how the open source paint.net software compares with PS and its various avatars?Do I really need to invest in PS to be able to make pictures better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsimmons Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Never used it, but it looks ok. The Gimp is free too and it pretty close to PS in some respects. Do you need Photoshop. No, not really. there are other viable options. Since this one is free, what's the harm of trying it? it's PC only, I'm on my Mac, so I can't try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phototransformations Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Paint.net is pretty primitive, compared to current versions of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. However, whatever you learn using Paint.net can be applied to Photoshop. If I were in your shoes (which is where I was 7 years ago), I'd get Photoshop Elements, which will probably carry you for quite a while and is not very expensive. You get 80% of Photoshop for less than 20% of the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirteenthumbs Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 I downloaded The Gimp, windows version, a few months ago and installed it. About 2 1/2 weeks later a worm was attacking my restore files and the root source for the worm was The Gimp. The worm source file was part of the origional download with the correct Gimp version signing. The Gimp exists no more on my machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh_croft Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 No. A good photo is mostly about subject, composition and lighting. Tweaking say, contrast or saturation, can be done just as well in Photoshop as Paint.net. An interesting subject, well composed and lit will need very little tweaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kari v Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 "The worm source file was part of the origional download with the correct Gimp version signing." That's interesting. Which worm? I've never heard anyone getting a worm from Sourceforge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenbarrington Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Unfortunately, SourceForge is not the only place from which you can download Gimp. It's the only place you probably SHOULD download open source products as there are a lot of places where you can get these products whse quality control may not be as rigorous as we would like. Personally, I didn't like Gimp. I found its user interface to be different enough from the rest of the Photo editors that I found using it stressful. If you want a free Photoshop work-alike, I've found Serif's PhotoPlus6 to be quite good. It's user interface is close enough to PS that I think a reasonably intelligent person can use photohsop tutorials to learn from. http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/default.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hkass Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Will Serif Plus read RAW files? Does it support layers, curves, etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now