Photoshop VS Gimp

I'm just curious to find out what you prefer, I try to use both but because there arn't too manty tutorials for Gimp, I end up using Photoshop although I do like using Gimp

I have Gimp but don't use it. Not out of preference, but I figure if I'm gonna pay $500 for PS, then I'm going to use it lol

wow, is that CS? or am I completly out of the loop

CS2

Amazon price $589

the box looks pretty

i much prefer PS beacuse its more professional and has a lot more functions and things...ive been using PS for over 5 years..and i still have about 80% of photoshop to learn about.

Personally, I dont care for one over the other/ Ive used both, but mainly use photoshop, just because it seems to be an industry standard (at least more popular than Gimp). Plus, I got an awsome student discount on it from the schools book store.

They're both pretty evenly matched in terms of features (though Gimp may lag a bit behind). I think Gimp is a very well put together app, but, I didn't find out about Gimp until a few years ago, and I've been using Photoshop since 2.5, and quite frankly, I'm used to the interface. Even though, for a while, it seemed like the team at Adobe couldn't decide whether to put certain features on the Image menu or the Edit menu.

I just can't get used to Gimp. Especially when saving a file. I know my way around most image formats, but it seems to me like Gimp will allow you to save images in non-standard formats, like a 32bit GIF, for example. This may not be the case, but the save functions in Gimp are VERY cryptic even for a veteran. I can only imagine what kind of confusion it causes with novices.

And for those who are curious, yes, I have tried the Photoshop GUI version of Gimp (or whatever it's called). It makes it look a bit more like Photoshop, but it still doesn't behave like Photoshop.

How odd, I just read about this a few minutes ago. I'd never heard of GIMPShop before, and when I read the article snippet I thought of this thread and thought I should post a link to it here. And here you are talking about it. Heh.

- Gita

Thanks for the link - I didn't know about this

I'm in the same position, i've used it for almost 6+ years and i still think i learned only 10% of how to use it.

go for PS. you will find this very usefull

PS for me.

to me it seems as though both gimp and PS are professional software. however, more people tend to use photoshop because a lot of graphic designers prefer it over anything else and also because of its reputation.

The Gimp is OK for Web work. Not so good for print media.

I use the Gimp just because it's free and I can do what I need with it. If I were a professional digital artist, I'm sure I'd have Painter & PhotoShop. But at this point, creating nice little logos for Web sites is easily done in the Gimp, and it even has lots of nice plugins/actions for text. So I have no need to pay $$$$ for Photoshop.

-Tony