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Originally Posted by MovieBird
No, they are NOT comparable products. GIMP doesn't do CMYK which is a necessity for real printing, nor does it do layered tifs or deal with psd files well. Oh, and it doesn't do lots of RAW formats from cameras, making it pretty useless for anybody that uses photography in any way. Not to mention that all those cool photoshop brushes and layers are not transferable to GIMP gradients.
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I very much disagree with your characterization of GIMP2 (the current
version). While it works for the most part in sRGB, it does have a CMYK
profile, in its color management function. It handles layers and channels
quite well in fact. I haven't had an occasion to try layered tifs, but have
very often used layered psds, created in GIMP2 for DVD authoring menu
components. I'm not sure what "RAW formats" you are referring to, but
GIMP2 has handled all the common formats that I've had any occasion to
feed it. It does work with files, so the photo needs to have been digitized,
if that is your complaint.
I am sure that there are some things that the very expensive Adobe
product can do that the free GIMP2 can't, but very few of them would
be things that the noncommercial user actually has a need for.
Luck;
Ken