For those of you running Linux or Mac, and not in the mood to
obtain or purchase Photoshop, you're in luck. There's a really neat solution I stumbled across today called Gimpshop (
http://gimpshop.com/). It's a modification of Gimp that puts you in that familiar Photoshop workspace.
If you don't know, Gimp is the free alternative to pixel based imaging software. You can check it out here:
http://www.gimp.org/. While Gimp is free, that's not to say it can't do what PS can. It is a very feature filled application, and is very comparable to PS. However, I have never been comfortable with the user interface of Gimp, it's always seemed a little... gimped.
I don't have a Linux or Mac machine with me here at work, but reading through the site, it seems rather promising. Hopefully at some point over the weekend I'll have the opportunity to install it on my Ubuntu machine and give it a whirl. I'll post more information once I've given it a thorough test drive.
Has anyone here already played around with this? Is it everything I'm hoping for, or are my expectations going to fall quite short?