On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:44:35 -0400, Leon Fisk
wrote:

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

Thanks, Leon. No, I haven't added any filters, although I'm interested
and I'll take a look at those.

I've only used GIMP for a couple of years, and almost strictly for
professional work that involves very mechanical kinds of
hand-retouching. It's all straight photography. I haven't ever used
overal image manipulation, except for the basic corrections --
contrast, color, density, etc. Mostly I clean up backgrounds, correct
mistakes, silhouette, and related things.

But I know there are a lot more Photoshop things you can do with GIMP
if you go for the open-source add-ons. I'll have to look into it
further.

Thanks again.

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Ed Huntress