On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:04:48 -0400
Ed Huntress wrote:

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Dood, I lived with Photoshop for 20 years. I'm not paying for it
anymore. And I find that Gimp is about equal to Photoshop 5. If you
only use manual controls -- and that's all I use -- it works great.

I can show you a heavy background-editing job I did with Gimp, if you
want to see the before-and-after.

You might find this set of filters of interest then:

http://gmic.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

of course, you may already know/have them added to Gimp


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