GIMPshop

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GIMPshop on OS X:lle (ja sittemmin myös linuxille) tehty versio GIMPistä. Ainoa ero alkuperäiseen on valikkorakenne, josta on pyritty tekemään mahdollisimman mäkkimäinen ja mahdollisimman pitkäli Photoshopin valikoita muistuttava. Toisin sanoen komentojen nimet on muutettu photaria vastaaviksi ja menut laitettu sinne minne ne mac-ohjelmissa kuuluvatkin eli yläpalkkiin.

"The Gimp’s menu structure and naming conventions had been a constant source of frustration for me because I was so used to Photoshop. So, I did what any hardcore graphics geek would have done. I hacked GIMPshop together. It’s a proof of concept and it’s a little buggy, so don’t expect too much.

I must say that this hack stands on the shoulders of giants. First, many, many thanks to Aaron Voisine who wrote detailed instructions for building Gimp.app from source. Also, thanks to the hardworking developers who have dedicated countless hours to making the Gimp the formidible application that it is today.

My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the Gimp accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. I hope I’ve done that. And maybe along the way, I can convert a Photoshop pirate into a Gimp user.

If you’ve never used Photoshop before, you may not appreciate my GIMPshop hack. What I’ve done is renamed and reorganized GIMP’s tools, options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions. Many of the menu options and even whole menus were recreated to faithfully reproduce a Photoshop-like experience. After running my GIMPshop hack, you’ll find that Photoshop and the GIMP are strikingly similar.

Longtime Photoshop users should feel very comfortable using GIMPshop.

Why is my Gimp special (other than the obvious Photoshop similarities)? For one, my Gimp is a packaged Macintosh application that you can run from within any folder on your computer (very little installation required). GIMPshop can even be run from a USB thumb drive, so you can take it with you! Second, my Gimp is currently (as far as I know) the only public, free Gimp.app based on the recent Gimp version 2.2.4. The creator of Gimp.app, Aaron Voisine hasn’t yet made Gimp.app version 2.2.4 available."