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Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 10 May 2011, 17:51
by JSR
Paul;22370 wrote:color menagment is workin only in linux and macs only at the moment

That's odd. I wonder how daviddeer got it working?
Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 10 May 2011, 18:39
by Paul
Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 10 May 2011, 20:18
by 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.
Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 12 May 2011, 09:50
by daviddeer
That's odd. I wonder how daviddeer got it working?
Downloaded the latest version 0.48 and it just worked!!
Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 12 May 2011, 11:28
by Paul
great! Going to try that when back home. If it work then it will be my main software now

Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 12 May 2011, 17:36
by 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/
Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 12 May 2011, 17:53
by JSR
Justin;22588 wrote: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.
Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 24 Jul 2011, 13:34
by 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!
Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 24 Jul 2011, 13:55
by Justin
Re: Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?
Posted: 26 Jul 2011, 20:45
by 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
