Hello all,

Its been a while since I have posted. I do generally love Linux...for me there is only one issue: graphic design software.

I need a good drop-in replacement for Photoshop. I can't get around the funky three panel layout of Gimp and some of the popup dialog boxes and other annoyances. (I have done some modifications, including changing tg"he default window behavior in KDE to "Above everything" I've stopped using it from frustration.

Krita has potential, but is not there yet.

For now, I'm editing images in inkscape, exporting them as .png and converting them to .jpg. That is mostly doing the trick. I would buy photoshop 7 if that meant that I could use wine.


Now, this is not meant to be a rant against Open Source...I want to be 100% dedicated to using Linux for work from servers to Content Management sites and more....)

Is there a program or other solution that I am missing?

Thank you all!!!!!
Mohtech

Have you looked into gimpshop? It's just Gimp, but with the GUI rearranged to look like Photoshop instead of the traditional gimp interface. May just be what you've been wanting.

As of wine-0.9.46, Photoshop 5, 6, 7, CS, and CS2 all run fine,
so if you have one of those versions, you should be able to simply
install and run it.
See http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop for details.

There's also Pixel. But if you've got a copy of Photoshop, just pass it through Wine.

No, that's all there is.

Gimp, Pixel, Image Magick, Krita for bitmap images, Inkscape for vector stuff (and possibly Xara - never tried it) and mtPaint for pixel art oriented work.

Gimp release candidate 2.4 is very nice - but still the three window thing.

If you can get the pre-4 KDE releases up and running, krita might have done some steps forward, but I haven't tried it.

try this http://gimpshop.blogspot.com/

bad coloring for its sites though ... at least for me ... ^_^



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Yuck! MTPaint? Horrible interface! I tried it once, and along with GPaint it's just crap compared to MSPaint. KolourPaint is ages more friendly though, even if it needs QT.

I was spending far more time modifying a simple graphic for a website for a client I'm working for. I was frustrated because it took far more time than it should of, and time is money.

I don't want to sound like a newbie. I have tried to install photoshop under wine and it does hang for me...I will try to reconfigure it. I have also tried gimpshop, that does help a bit.

If I knew anything about programming, I would fork gimp to create a single window application, which you can align the the layers and use text as a vector.

Funny thing is that my graphic was easy to fix under Inkscape. For some reason, Gimp instantly converts text to a bitmap and that makes it "fuzzy" when resizing it. There are a lot of features I like in Gimp, and those features make it nearly equal to photoshop.

Thank you all for your input, I feel less frustrated after shelving the graphic work for a day. Now its back to work.

Mohtech

why do you want any paint type app?

with the speed and space of modern pc /laptops , people dont actually need all those "smaller" graphic applications anymore ... just give them gimp or something like that as long as you can make sure that there is only one graphics application in their desktop system ...

in fact , this approach can be good for people accustomizing themselves well and without surprises when they are adviced to use only linux daily in their work ... as they still need to organize themselves up a bit with the flow of their work especially at homes , nobody is going to set things nice nice for them like when they are in office ...


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From the title, I thought this was going to be a golfing question.

I like the gimpshop suggestion though. I didn't know about it before; solves my main gripe about gimp.