educational discount. If you have it on 20 computers on a school, that
runs to $6000. If a school went open source, you can purchase computers
running Linux for $450 to $500 which translates to 12 additional
computers.
Kids would also be able to download it to their personal computers for
free and do additional work at home, helping to close the digital
divide.
So, my question is why do schools stay with Photoshop?
I can imagine it makes sense when you're a top tier private school with
more money in the world, but many schools aren't in that situation.
Thanks,
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 19:03 -0700, Jason Johnson wrote:
> Specifically GIMP does not have:
> --CMYK and Pantone support (which you almost certainly don't need).
> --RAW support (which you might need for digital camera work).
> Otherwise, I am not aware of anything but is has been about a year since =
I checked. I am sure someone has a comparison chart out there.
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> There are some other features that you may need to use a plug-in for to a=
chieve similar functionality. Probably the biggest drawback to GIMP is tha=
t Photoshop gets all the press. There are dozens of books on PS for ever o=
ne there is on GIMP and plenty of student friendly tutorials. That is wher=
e gimpshop comes in handy. It converts the GIMP interface to be more like =
photoshop (i.e. similar UI but does not change functionality).
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> http://www.gimpshop.com/
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> Outside of features another big hurdle for mac users is that the project =
does not produce binaries for the mac which means a more complex install. =
Another group supports packaging with a sourceforge project but, as always,=
that means they run months to years behind the OS releases and GIMP releas=
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> re: Neo Office / Open Office doesn't do what I need...
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> On a related note, I'm also curious to hear about what Adobe Photoshop do=
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