Photoshop Cloned?
May 5, 2005 Software, Web Development
I have used the Gimp in Linux before and really thought it was a cool & powerful graphics program. But not being much of a graphics guy I got pretty lost in it pretty quick, so I really don’t know what all it can do… but I know it can do a lot. I now rely on Photoshop or Fireworks since I can usually get what I need and the interfaces for both are similar and pretty intuitive.
Today I see this article that a guy has tweaked the Gimp to look and act like Photoshop. That is awesome! Called GimpShop
Right now there is only a version for OSX, but hopefully soon a compiled version for Windows or Linux will emerge. You can read about it and download it at the link above.
*** UPDATED, read the comments, Windows version available!
May 5th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
where’s the link? my bro might be interested in it!
and yes… bring on a Win version!
May 7th, 2005 at 12:22 am
This is very cool Maabadi…I will be downloading this at work very soon and giving it a try. I’m running OSX on my iMack at work.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Thanks
May 7th, 2005 at 4:12 am
Hey guys, glad you saw this:)
Sorry I didn’t have the link, and again, I posted about the article that I did not yet fully read.
I did go back and read some more and I found in the comments of the post that someone did get it compiled for Windows. Pretty cool, I followed the comments back noting the times of the posts & it seems it only took a day for someone to grab it and and compile it. All via Blogs primarily I bet. I dig that!
I downloaded and installed on my XP system. The install went fine, oh, and the download is 8 MEGS ONLY!… I Love good free software! and I love it even more when it is small/compact, non-bloated.
When I first launched it it gave literally about 2000 dll erros as it was loading. It showed the splash screen with a progress meter like other programs do on start up, but ever notch of the progress bar would cause the same dll error on a different file. At first I was $@%$#. I clicked okay to the first few errors thinking it would stop and the program not work, then found there was a lot & clicking would take forever.
So then I held down the enter key and it blazed through all the errors. I still didn’t expect the program to work, but after clicking okay on the 2000 error dialog boxes the splash screen continued and the program launched.
Just to let you know in cause it happens with you. I have not had time to give the program an extensive go-through, but it seemed to work fine. I made some lines and such..hehe.. played with a couple of the tools.
One thing I need to figure out is I tried to open a JPEG and it would not open, gave an error. Need to see what that is all about.