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Geek Culture / Source code for photoshop is released for free

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Phaelax
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Posted: 14th Feb 2013 20:46
Photoshop 1.0 that is

http://computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

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mr Handy
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Posted: 14th Feb 2013 21:57
Monochrome (bitmap) screen with rgb color picker.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 14th Feb 2013 23:41
I haven't gone through it all yet but that's a great article; it makes me wonder why anyone reads newspapers any more when the quality of writing and knowledge is pretty poor in relation to special interest websites. I don't think this would even get more than a few lines in a tabloid. Do people just read the papers for small-talk ammunition?

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Posted: 14th Feb 2013 23:44
Gimp is open source

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nonZero
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Posted: 16th Feb 2013 09:55 Edited at: 16th Feb 2013 09:56
This is great. Maybe someone can make a free light-weight Photoshop clone (within the legal boundaries). Would be great for many people, especially if it was stripped down of the necessary crap that only industry professionals actually use.
Btw, I think this was a PR move because of that CS2.0 "giveaway" scandal a while back.

Quote: "Gimp is open source"

Gimp is a great piece of software (although it seems to run faster on my Linux box. Bad porting? Windows fail?). However, Photoshop has certain ease-of-use aspects that Gimp lacks (for example, the way one saves/exports images is easier and more intuitive in Photoshop because it's simply "Saves As" -> "PNG" (from the drop-down menu)). That being said, Photoshop falls short in the fact that it's very overly complicated these days so I'd never actually use or buy it because I'm hardly a professional. Ultimately I like Paint.Net for a lot of my stuff (specifically pixel-art and GUI-components. I use Inkscape for most of my freehand stuff or for inking scans and tracing images. Gimp is usually my image composer where I combine elements already designed and add visual effects. I got Art Rage free with my Wacom tablet but I barely use it coz it's uncooperative.
I get why many prefer Photoshop. It's designed with a specific user-type in mind

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Posted: 16th Feb 2013 17:32
Quote: "simply "Saves As" -> "PNG" (from the drop-down menu))"


Is "Export To" -> "PNG" really that much harder?


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Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Feb 2013 18:32
In Photoshop, I believe you used to have to 'export' to PNG and other formats as well in the past before it was added to the save menu.

Quote: "Photoshop falls short in the fact that it's very overly complicated these days "

I don't think so, and I like the GUI organization better than Gimp.

Quote: "Ultimately I like Paint.Net"

That'll never compare to Deluxe Paint! Ultimate Paint is supposedly similar and for windows.

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Posted: 16th Feb 2013 21:05
@Indicium:
Quote: "Is "Export To" -> "PNG" really that much harder?"

It's about familiarity. "Save As" is the option you automatically look to to save. Export options should be part of the singular "Save As" hierarchy so whether you save in native format or save in another format, it's all the same set of actions. What can I say, I'm lazy Lazy user, I don't wanna have to think. I run on Autopilot about 60% of my day

@Phaelax:
Quote: "Ultimate Paint is supposedly similar and for windows."

Actually looks interesting. I'll try and have a look at it some time (On a Linux box atm). I like graphics editors with simple stuff for pixel-art but I also enjoy access to some added features. When I was younger I used to do everything on MSPaint (back then it was still called PaintBrush). I got an application called "BMP2AVI" for compiling bitmap images into AVIs some time during my early to mid teens. I made a few 2 to 3 minute movies with that and drew the frames for the animation with naught but PaintBrush. There were lots of frames (naturally). I don't know if that makes me cool or sad
The worst part is they weren't even clever or funny, they were lame and the sound was outta sync.

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Posted: 16th Feb 2013 23:13
Quote: "I don't think so, and I like the GUI organization better than Gimp."

The GIMP GUI works much better on linux but I hear you, it's like they implemented all these features then suddenly thought "Oh crap we need a way for the user to actually access this stuff!" then bundled a pile of dialogue windows into the same menu (which is really unintuitive) and litter the screen with them.

Phaelax
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Posted: 17th Feb 2013 08:32
There was a pretty cool art program I used in Windows 3.1 but I can't remember what it was called. I don't think it was a MS product either, because it did a lot more than PaintBrush.

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The Weeping Corpse
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Posted: 17th Feb 2013 19:53
Anybody still using Paint Shop Pro?

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