To the Editor of Popular Photography: In your article "Expanding the Palette" in the October 2000 issue, you listed several software products available for image editing and painting in a box on page 62. I was disappointed not to see The GIMP not included in this roundup. This is a very high quality, rich software package that currently runs on Linux/UNIX and OS/2, with a Windows port currently in progress. While The GIMP does not currently have all of the high end prepress capabilities of Photoshop, it comes with an extensive library of tools and plug-ins. It's completely free, and the source code is just as completely free for anyone to experiment with. Most Linux distributions include The GIMP, and those who don't have it, who want to experiment with the latest and greatest, or are simply interested should take a look at http://www.gimp.org. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
