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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 :-)