Sunday, March 9, 2008

GIMP and Paint.NET: the brief 3-point review

GIMP
  • Good enough as a Photoshop replacement, although it does not have a magnetic lasso and RYGB mode. It only has RGB, so it's more suited for non-print designs.
  • Many free add-ons, scripts, brushes, gradients available. A lot of GIMP users regularly convert Photoshop brushes, gradients and other effects for GIMP.
  • Palettes are all over the place (compared to Adobe CS), may require some interface customization.

Paint.NET
  • Not as feature-rich as GIMP: no healing brush and brush selection. May have to use the clone stamp tool instead to work around this.
  • Has Black and White and Sepia adjustments option, good for converting color photographs without going through too much trouble
  • Good enough for really basic image editing. After all, it was originally designed to replace Paint which comes with Windows.


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