Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?

[JSR]

color menagment is workin only in linux and macs only at the moment

That's odd. I wonder how daviddeer got it working?

[Paul]

http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=761

[Justin]

I see that post was back in 2008, maybe this has been rectified? Not had a chance to read the rest of the thread.

[daviddeer]

That's odd. I wonder how daviddeer got it working?

Downloaded the latest version 0.48 and it just worked!!

[Paul]

great! Going to try that when back home. If it work then it will be my main software now

[Justin]

I couldn't get 0.48 to run, crashes every time but 0.47 runs fine.

Interesting associated article here....

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/photoshop- ... rce-tools/

[JSR]

I couldn't get 0.48 to run, crashes every time but 0.47 runs fine.

Have you tried the portable version? It runs okay for me, I just don't see any difference whether the colour management is on or off.

[Justin]

Thought I'd update this thread

Managed to get latest versions of Inkscape and Gimp working. Both look really good. Thought I'd spend some time working with Inkscape to see if I could replicate the work done in Photoshop. All went very well, couple of crashes whilst importing photo's but it autosaved so no big problem. Bit of an issue when I came to open/save Photoshop docs, no support for .psd I don't think. Tried to print but came out very dark so maybe need to double check my colour/profile settings here. Overall, a very good piece of software.

Not done much with Gimp yet but I can see that it opens/saves in .psd which is a major bonus.

Both look like being great 'free' alternatives that will also run on Ubuntu!

[Justin]

http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products

Anyone tried this?

[Justin]

Keen to try this SK1 software but as a noobie to Ubuntu 11.04 I'm a bit in the dark as to where to start! Trying to persevere with a Linux platform to see how it goes