gHacks technology news » gimpshot http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Photoshop “skin” for Gimp http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/15/photoshop-skin-for-gimp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/15/photoshop-skin-for-gimp/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:58:58 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4997 Image editing applications have been coming and going on my desktop for some time now. I used to be a Photoshop user, but I decided to give free software a chance and after going through Paint.net and Gimp, I finally decided Gimp was for me. However I have since missed the intuitive menus in Photoshop and for me some of Gimp’s naming conventions are a bit weird.

You can get the best of both worlds though with a nifty addon to Gimp called Gimpshop. This reorders your menus and restructures them to resemble Photoshop’s, and very closely at that. Many items that have caused mix-ups have been changed, for example Gimp’s convolve tool has been renamed to “blur/sharpen”, something actually understandable.

Menus have been reordered to, so if you’ve grown accustomed to Photoshop, you’ll feel right at home in Gimp too. I’m sorry to say there is no Windows version yet, only Mac and Linux, but there is one on the way! If you’re a developer you can grab the source from the homepage though. I like many-many things in Gimp and I’d rather support free software which is as good as its $600 counterpart, so it’s Gimp with Gimpshop for me!

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