Gimp 2

Frankie_flea

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Just downloaded Gimp 2, and after having a short play found it a bit more laboured than Paint.NET. Seems to need more clicks to do some commonly used functions. With no percentage of image size displayed anywhere, and a useless noise reduction feature, i'm beginning to think it may all be hype. Couple this with the fact that the 'lasso' tool, when clicked seems to make all the other functions useless, and along with the laboured 'start up', i think i may have to return to the more usable Paint.NET. At least that has right/left click image zoom in and zoom out, and a lasso tool that works. I suspect that GIMP has more bugs than an NHS hospital. Expected more. :shake:
 
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GIMP has a steep learning curve, it's a very powerful piece of software.. it takes a lot of effort to get the best from it. It's certainly not something you can expect great results from after a short play. It's not based around simple point-and-click basics.
 
It really is a great programme for free! I have been using it for 12 months and still only scratched the surface, finding more about it every use!

Have a look Here and Here and Here.
 
Alastair said:
GIMP has a steep learning curve, it's a very powerful piece of software.. it takes a lot of effort to get the best from it. It's certainly not something you can expect great results from after a short play. It's not based around simple point-and-click basics.
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Yes, you certainly can't use Photoshop as a back end to a Perl CGI script to create on-the-fly graphics for your web site :)
 
I don't expect to learn all the grunts and whistles straight off, although you'd think that i should be able to load an image in, click on 'noise' and then reduce the noise in that image. I'm not one to dismiss something easily with only having a short play, and i shall carry on investigating, but early signs are not good.
 
I must say that I preferred Paint.Net to Gimp.
I still use Paint.Net when I want to do cloning or need layers, it is quite powerful and there are some good plug ins.
 
I find myself agreeing with Suvv. Don't get me wrong, i have not given up on GIMP 2 for some of the features look really interesting, especially if you are heavily into the arty side of photographic manip. For basic photographic processing ,,,, well i have yet to reduce the noise levels on an image satisfactorily, and can't save an image to folder level. However i will give it every chance. The likelyhood is i'm afraid, that it will only be used on those rare occasions when i need a querky effect.
 
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Frankie_flea said:
I don't expect to learn all the grunts and whistles straight off, although you'd think that i should be able to load an image in, click on 'noise' and then reduce the noise in that image. I'm not one to dismiss something easily with only having a short play, and i shall carry on investigating, but early signs are not good.
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Ahhh.. I think you'll find most of the simple stuff under the Filters tab. If you don't want to get complicated just accept the default settings.
 
The percentage display is in the bottom left of the screen.

I only ever use GIMP for my processing. It's the first software I ever learned to use properly, so to me, everything about the layout seems fairly intuitive.

If you learn to use it, it has masses of features and tonnes of plug-ins on the internet. I think GIMP is actually better in power terms than Photoshop elements. It might not have the time and money invested in the design like photoshop, but it has the features.

There are some things missing from it when you download it, but you can download plugins to make up for that. For a noise filter, I use either the free Wavelet denoise, the free GreyCstoration or topaz denoise (which works in gimp if you download PSPI which lets you run photoshop plugins).

When I tried paint.NET a few months ago, I found the layout strange and it lacking features. But that's because I'm used to GIMP. Once you get used to it, it's as easy to operate as any other software.
 
Thanks for all the feedback, i guess Gimp is like blackpudding,,,, an acquired taste.;)
 
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