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Josh, you forgot to mention the handicaps each of us had.<br>
<br>
Josh's handicap: Not professional graphics design person.<br>
My handicap: Running Photoshop CS4 in Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit,
in Virtualbox with 1024MB of ram dedicated to the VM, running on
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit, on an Intel Atom dual-core cpu with 2GB of
single-channel ddr2-800MHz ram. Oh god, it was slow... It took
about half the meeting to get it booted into windows with Photoshop
open.<br>
<br>
So I didn't really have the same amount of 'time' as Josh did. You
could argue that this points towards the benefits of lower
CPU/memory usage of open-source software, though, because I would be
willing to bet that Gimp runs twice as fast on Linux as Photoshop
does on Vista Ultimate on similar hardware. I can open Gimp up with
no speed issues on the nettop (outside of the VM, anyway). Also, it
seems that the Gimp is capable of the same image quality that you
would expect from Photoshop.<br>
<br>
My verdict would be that if you are just starting out, and deciding
to learn how to use these graphics programs, just start learning
Gimp and Inkscape. You are going to have to invest a lot of time
and effort into learning the OSS programs, just as you would with
the Adobe products, but if you start with the OSS ones, you don't
have to worry about trying to 'figure out how to do this thing I
know how to do in Photoshop in Gimp'. Once you've spent years
honing your skills with one program, you aren't likely to want to
switch. This is true even between commercial, closed-source
programs... I learned on Illustrator, and because of that, I cannot
stand CorelDRAW. They do the same stuff, but their UIs are
different enough that you can't just seamlessly switch between the
two.<br>
<br>
Also we didn't 'finish at the same time', because I wasn't really
'finished'. This is just where I was at when Josh called 'Done!'
So I really think Josh won.<br>
<br>
-- Matt<br>
<br>
On 8/26/2010 7:38 PM, Rob Miller wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTinYxVtrOFo3VLa+qij8tRUvDe6QJR0otwMBab94@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I vote for Josh/Gimp. The "gnu-head" is in a more
natural position. Cool contest !!!<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Josh
More <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net">MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204,
204, 204);">For those who were at our meeting last week, the
files are up.<br>
<br>
Here is the original photo, wherein our friend James met
Richard Simmons: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/guppiecat/4929342609/"
target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/guppiecat/4929342609/</a><br>
<br>
The goal was to see who could change Richard Simmons into
Richard Stallman and make James's vacation so much more
interesting.<br>
<br>
Here is Matt's attempt w/ Photoshop: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/guppiecat/4929934660/"
target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/guppiecat/4929934660/</a><br>
Here is mine w/ Gimp: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/guppiecat/4929342573/"
target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/guppiecat/4929342573/</a><br>
<br>
We tied in terms of time, which means that the group has to
decide who actually won and whether or not it's worth paying
real money for proprietary software. :)<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:morej@alliancetechnologies.net">morej@alliancetechnologies.net</a><br>
515-245-7701<br>
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