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Blog-worthy News Provided by Romow.com[Blog-worthy News Provided by Romow.com] But with GIMP continuing to gain popularity as a free alternative for quality image editing, Adobe is going on the offensive with new updates to its consumer version of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements 6. This lower-priced image editor (but still not free) sports many of the same features as its professional-oriented big brother, including organizational tools and batch editing.

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Too much technology+photo free timehttp://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/10/08/photoshop-cs4-vs-the-gimp-v26/ [Too much technology+photo free time] Photoshop CS4 vs. The Gimp v2.6: But remember that The Gimp is simply free. On the contrary, Photoshop CS4 (even if getting the upgrade license and despite the many available options) will still be very expensive (Master Collection at $2,499).

webmonkeyhttp://www.webmonkey.com/blog/New_GIMP_2DOT6_Gives_Photoshop_a_Run_For_its_Money [webmonkey] New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run For its Money: Aside from the interface changes, GIMP 2.6 also represents a huge leap forward on the image-depth front. Although many people claim that GIMP is a viable replacement for Photoshop, professional designers have long balked at the GIMP’s limited color depth —

linuxhaxor.nethttp://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/10/01/in-gimp-we-trust/ [linuxhaxor.net] In Gimp We Trust.: For most average image editing needs, Gimp is more than enough, but for developers and professional designers Photoshop is more than just a powerful, insanely over-priced, image editor; Photoshop is a brand name which is synonymous to “image editing”.

The Networkhttp://www.beatenetworks.com/blog/index.php?/archives/438-Gimp-2.6-Released-Ready-to-Compete-with-Photoshop.html [The Network] Gimp 2.6 Released: Ready to Compete with Photoshop?: Most color operations in GIMP are now ported to the powerful graph based image processing framework GEGL, meaning that the interal processing is being done in 32bit floating point linear light RGBA. By default the legacy 8bit code paths are still used, but a curious user can turn on the use of GEGL for the color operations with Colors / Use GEGL.

Original Signal - Transmitting Techhttp://tech.originalsignal.com/article/144965/free-gimp-2-6-image-editor-looks-behaves-more-like-photoshop.html [Original Signal - Transmitting Tech] Free GIMP 2.6 Image Editor Looks, Behaves More Like Photoshop: The GIMP project released the latest version of its free software imageeditor. GIMP version 2.6 features a greatly overhauled user interface,bringing the look and feel of the app much closer to Adobe Photoshop, theexpensive industry .

ULTRABILISIM[ULTRABILISIM] OSX Photoshop Alternative Round-Up: Adobe really messed up when they ignored the Linux market because it created an opening for GIMP to build a huge fan-base and a legion of diehard supporters. I like the fact that it doesn’t operate exactly like Photoshop, because If I wanted anything that was just like Photoshop”¦I’d be using Photoshop.

Control Enter[Control Enter] GIMP - The Open Source replacement for Adobe Photoshop: GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an open source software for editing/retouching photos, creating  graphics, available for various operating systems. It is the free and open source replacement for the popular graphics editing software, Adobe  Photoshop.

Metacafe - Today's Videos by Metacafehttp://www.metacafe.com/watch/1851284/how_to_change_an_image_background/ [Metacafe - Today's Videos by Metacafe] How to Change an Image Background: Video about how to change Internet Explorer background color without using no programs. Easy to do it.

MXM-Studioshttp://mxm-studios.com/blog/go-and-get-the-gimp-26/ [MXM-Studios] Go and get The Gimp 2.6!: Like i’ve written in the first sentence there is no software that’s better than Photoshop. When you go into detail and really start to dig deep into huge projects you will quickly see the difference between both programs.

Wired: Compilerhttp://www.webmonkey.com/blog/New_GIMP_2DOT6_Gives_Photoshop_a_Run_for_Its_Money [Wired: Compiler] New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money: GIMP 2.6 doesn’t move to a single unified window, as Photoshop has done, but it does now feature an “empty image window’ which acts as a container for all your open images.

lancom Technology Blog[lancom Technology Blog] 3 free image editing tools: Spashup - Spashup is an easy to use online image editing tool. It’s similar to GIMP and Photoshop, but has fewer features.

Raymond.CC Bloghttp://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/10/02/how-to-open-psd-extension-files-without-installing-adobe-photoshop/ [Raymond.CC Blog] How to Open .PSD Extension Files Without Installing Adobe Photoshop: Since PSD files can be open and edited by Photoshop, not everyone is willing to spend thousands of dollars on Adobe Creative Suite 4 just to edit a few PSD files. Even if there is a pirated version of Adobe CS4, I am also reluctant to install the few GB of software just because I need to open and edit a few PSD files and then uninstall it once I’m done.

Chheplo's Bloghttp://chheplo.com/blog/?p=149 [Chheplo's Blog] Paint, Photoshop alternative in Web browser - SUMOPaint.com beta: You can avoid using heavy & memory eating Photoshop, useless MS Paint, or confusing GIMP. So why are you waiting for..just give this site a try.

nixcraft Linux Sys Admin Bloghttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-gimp-26.html [nixcraft Linux Sys Admin Blog] Download Of The Day: GIMP 2.6 For Linux / Windows / Mac OS X: It is a free raster graphics editor used to manipulate digital graphics and photographs under Linux and other operating systems. It is often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor.

Aviary Bloghttp://a.viary.com/blog/posts/42-sweet-new-aviary-tutorials-for-phoenix [Aviary Blog] 42 Sweet New Phoenix Tutorials: These can be used for Photoshop and GIMP without too much trouble, and even some other web-based editors. If you're an educator or teacher these are excellent (and free) to use for the purposes of sharing in your class to introduce .

Write it down today, forget it tommorrow[Write it down today, forget it tommorrow] How to make a psd file text editable with gimp.: About xcf this is gimps default extension just like psd is to PhotoShop. Gimp will reconise text layers as a text layer using this xcf extension.

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