On Saturday 14 April 2007 08:04, Chris Puttick wrote: > Hi > > Forgive me if I have missed this information, but can someone give an > estimate for the release of 2.4? We are trying to move to open source > throughout the organisation, but the graphics team are solidly stuck to > Adobe Photoshop and Gimp 2.4 seems the most likely candidate to replace it. > Unless the list thinks that 2.4 would not be a candidate to replace > Photoshop? > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards > > Chris Chris, There is not nearly enough information in your post to answer that question. It depends entirely on the requirements of your graphics team. For example, if they work only with 8 bit/channel images then gimp 2.4 might be a good candidate to replace Photoshop. But if they work with 16 bit/channel images then it is not. But there are lots of other things that need to be considered and your note does not have any information on any if these variables. I would think that the best thing to do would be to find someone on your graphics team who is open minded enough to not get hung up on the differences in the UI who will actually evaluate the available functionality and give an assessment of what things your shop requires and how close current GIMP development is to meeting your needs. However it might be difficult to find someone who will be able to look past the UI differences. If at that point you find that there are features that your graphics team uses and NEEDS that are missing from GIMP 2.3.x (and presumably 2.4 since the feature set is close to being frozen) then you could follow up with the GIMP developers to make sure those things end up in the next version. You might even consider having your organization sponsor (IE. fund) some of that work to ensure that the next release meets your needs. Also keep in mind that there are other open source tools for doing graphics work that might also complement GIMP and provide functionality that your graphics team needs. In other words it might not be GIMP that ends up replacing Photoshop but GIMP plus some other tools and you need to consider your whole graphics work flow to be able to answer the question of how you will go about replacing Photoshop with open source software. Also on a side note I see on your web site that there is at least one stitched mosaic of photos. If you are not already using open source tools for this work might I suggest you try Hugin, enblend and autopano-SIFT. In fact this suite of tools would have done a significantly better job then what I saw on your web site for the image next to "HERITAGE" on your Services page. Hal > > Chris Puttick > CIO > Oxford Archaeology: Exploring the Human Journey > Direct: +44 (0)1865 263 818 > Switchboard: +44 (0)1865 263 800 > Mobile: +44 (0)7914 402 907 > http://thehumanjourney.net > > > This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl - > www.blackspider.com _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
