GIMP vs Photoshop vs Lightroom Poll Version 2!

[chinesechef]

How is this comparable?
Different tools different purpose.

 

[sfoto100]

used gimp for about a year before i got my mac w/ Photoshop... no complains. excellent program. after i switched to photoshop (just because it was already preloaded on my mac..) i actually found it harder to get used to because it had all the funny fancy names, and GIMP was so straightforward as compared to it. :bsmilie: if i'm not wrong, gimp cannot process raw tho. please clarify? i tried it once.

my friend showed me lightroom, looks ok, but i've only used it once.

gimp can open raw file... so i assume u can process it..

u need this http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/ to open raw in gimp..

 

[sfoto100]

ops it has been answered already...

 

[ajkda]

no one use ms paint?

 

[hotwork77]

no one use ms paint?

Have... I use MS Paint 15 years ago. :bsmilie:

 

[dafansu]

no one use ms paint?

i'm using paint.net, is it by the same company

 

[Doctor Inferno]

Photoshop for hardcore concentrated single photo editing, Lightroom for massive editing.

 

[jpeagle]

capture one for processing
faststone for viewing and filtering.

 

[bayusuputra]

i just downloaded trial version of LR3, wanna give it a try after using photoscape for quite sometimes.

why only one other people mentioned about photoscape? i like it, because it's free and super easy to use.

 

[eleveninth]

i use cs5 only. hehe

 

[li0nheart07]

Photoshop, Lightroom and fireworks.

Fireworks engine is better than Photoshop in compressing images for web-use.

i agreed with boombox on Fireworks capability... and my personal preference was to let the photos be as original as possible, used Lightroom to embed signatures as the embeding tools are excellent and thereafter used Fireworks for compressing for uploading purposes...

 

[MRSAMO]

Geez who uses Gimp? Now I love Ubuntu but Gimp really frustrates me.

 

[allenleonhart]

For speed, i take lightroom's ability to do quick and acceptable batch processing.

For tweaks, photoshop wins hands down

 

[CBCFKCE]

no one uses Bibble in this forum?

 

[Etna-sama]

Geez who uses Gimp? Now I love Ubuntu but Gimp really frustrates me.

You don't compare commercially-produced software with dedicated full-time staff working on the product to an alternative built and developed by volunteers from ground up in their spare time.

And GIMP is the only feasible option in Linux. Deal with it. Unless you would like to compile and build your own image editor from source code?

 

[Alpina]

photoshop.
too used to it.

 

[PhotoDude]

Photoshop is unrivalled, and it costs its money.

 

[zaren]

Use photoscape for newbie like me.. very easy to use.. n its free...

yep, photoscape is v gd.