GIMP 2.4

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Thu 25 Oct, 2007 4:30 am

Well, it has been a few years and a new version of GIMP is here! Looks like it is more user friendly, and many useful features

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Thu 25 Oct, 2007 4:01 pm

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King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Thu 25 Oct, 2007 4:39 pm

I always found it a bit.. slow..
Especially when it's loading

So I like Paint.NET (also because I can write my own plugins for it easily, so I can make it do almost anything)

Post by **benryves** » Thu 25 Oct, 2007 5:04 pm

(Disclaimer: this is based on it running on Windows) - the windowing system is basically unusable without some sort of virtual desktop manager, and rather buggy under Windows (tool dialogs popping up behind all other windows, for example). I know it's not really a Windows app, but with such a large market share you'd have thought that there was a Windows-friendly version (ie, put everything inside an MDI container and move the menus to the top and you're pretty much there).

I daresay it's very powerful out of the box, but the interface doesn't do it any favours. I second King Harold's suggestion of Paint.NET as a freebie, as whilst it isn't all that great on its own there are some decent plugins for it and it's very easy to use and extend.

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Thu 25 Oct, 2007 11:06 pm

I like GIMP. might try Paint.Net in the future.

at least no more GTK

but is tilem and tiemu still being updated?

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Fri 26 Oct, 2007 12:41 am

Uhmm, GIMP...slow?

Well Photoshop isn't even usable on my system, and the GIMP 2.2 starts up in 2 seconds, plugins and all.

I have tried using Photoshop, but even when selecting brushes it takes about 4 seconds to register clicks in the GUI. GIMP is lightning fast on my system, so right now I would say GIMP over Photoshop.

Post by **benryves** » Fri 26 Oct, 2007 9:55 am

Halifax wrote:Uhmm, GIMP...slow?

Well Photoshop isn't even usable on my system, and the GIMP 2.2 starts up in 2 seconds, plugins and all.

I just timed it: one minute, 43 seconds. Photoshop 7 loads in < 10 seconds (this is a Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, with 2GB RAM).

It seems to be the "Loading fonts (this may take a while)" thing that does it...

It's probably a configuration issue, or I have lots of fonts that it doesn't like loading or something.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Fri 26 Oct, 2007 12:22 pm

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Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Fri 26 Oct, 2007 4:00 pm

Wow I find this really odd.

Can you guys tell me your versions?

Because I have GIMP 2.2 default Win32 binaries from the site, no modifications, and Adobe Photoshop CS3, with no modifications, and it isn't even funny how long it takes Photoshop to startup.

I wish I had a desktop movie taker. :/

Post by **benryves** » Fri 26 Oct, 2007 4:04 pm

Photoshop 7 + The GIMP 2.4 here.

So, yes, using a very old version of Photoshop probably helps.

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Fri 26 Oct, 2007 4:15 pm

GIMP 2.2.13 (dutch, no additional stuff), it takes 36 seconds, Paint.NET 3.10 (with lots of extra plugin's) takes about 15 seconds (from the moment I click them in the start menu until they are done loading)
And that on my old computer (new one is delayed again - this time on its harddisk)
I don't have Photoshop though

KermMartian · Post by **KermMartian** » Fri 26 Oct, 2007 5:54 pm

GIMP 2.4 takes 3.6 seconds to load on my system.

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Sat 27 Oct, 2007 1:38 am

GIMP takes awhile to load on my comp, but anything adobe takes forever compared to an opensource counterpart.

NanoWar · Post by **NanoWar** » Sat 27 Oct, 2007 11:33 am

GIMP 2.2.10 needs 6.8 seconds here (openSUSE 10.1, not-so-good hardware) and I will not try to run Adobe software through Wine or anything

I haven't tested the new GIMP yet.

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Sat 27 Oct, 2007 5:14 pm

GIMP 2.4.0, 1.6 seconds under Debian Sid amd64 with Gnome. I don’t have Photoshop.