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Alternative to Photoshop?
« on: December 10, 2008, 02:49:13 PM »
I'm in charge of a website for a non-profit group I belong to, http://www.pigeonrivercountryforest.org/.
Anyway, the ISP designed the home page gratis, which was nice. But they did it in Photoshop (I think), which we don't have, and the links are embedded in the page itself, not the text for the links. The text is embedded in the photo, I guess. This means that if I try to use another background image, links don't line up with the text.
How can I get links to match up with the text?  Thanks.
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2008, 02:59:49 PM »
I can't see the page but it sounds like they used an image map which imo is pretty lame way to do it.

If it was me I would redo the page with my image, using div's and css but again I'm not sure exactly how they did it.

A free alternative to ps (and better imo) is GIMP
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2008, 04:00:23 PM »
2nd GIMP
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2008, 05:03:47 PM »
It takes some getting used to but its more powerful then photoshop and its a million times easier. In a week I was doing thing on gimp I spent months on ps trying to learn
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2008, 05:20:07 PM »
Quote from: RoD on December 10, 2008, 05:03:47 PM
It takes some getting used to but its more powerful then photoshop and its a million times easier. In a week I was doing thing on gimp I spent months on ps trying to learn

I don't think GIMP is more powerful then PS, just that it does as much as the average photoshop user needs and then some.

Photoshop has automation tool and Pantone handling.  I have tried gimp in a while but I recall it having limitation for profession photo editors and publishers.
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2008, 05:53:56 PM »
Gimp has and supports everything photoshop does, even photoshop specific things and formats. Gimp also has more out of the box then ps and has a very wide spread extension and support community.

Gimp does everything photoshop does faster and easier and things photoshop doesn't do.
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2008, 07:10:39 PM »
I don't know I'd go that far, but GIMP is really good for free.
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2008, 07:20:20 PM »
I have a friend wh has his own business doing graphics for everything from business cards to wrapping buses and such. He used to be a huge photoshop flagshipper and after toying with gimp he did a full 360 and won't touch photoshop.
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2008, 08:35:42 PM »
Doesn't sound like he is doing high end photography though.
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2008, 08:42:54 PM »
Quote from: micah on December 10, 2008, 05:20:07 PM
Quote from: RoD on December 10, 2008, 05:03:47 PM
It takes some getting used to but its more powerful then photoshop and its a million times easier. In a week I was doing thing on gimp I spent months on ps trying to learn

I don't think GIMP is more powerful then PS, just that it does as much as the average photoshop user needs and then some.

Photoshop has automation tool and Pantone handling.  I have tried gimp in a while but I recall it having limitation for profession photo editors and publishers.

GIMP has script-fu and python-fu for automation, you can actually write python apps that automate tasks using GIMP as an image processing library. Then they show up in your toolbar to run (you can download them too for the regular users out there that don't know python).
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2008, 09:39:30 PM »
He does a lot of highend work. The man's business is pulling high six figures a year. He even does correction work where photographers will send him photos that aren't quite what they should be.

He's done work for maxim and sport illustrated.
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2008, 10:33:04 PM »
Picasa for easy to do stuff.
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Re: Alternative to Photoshop?
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2008, 07:36:09 AM »
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