#GIMPSHOP ADWARE SOFTWARE#
These installers comply with the original software Obtained directly from GIMP's repository website, and does not modify is distributing the original unmodified software, They offer an installer that downloads the normal GIMP from the official sources but is also some kind of adware. That site you link to is basically a scam. There are some old & untrustworthy tarballs/.deb packages floating around but I checked one out recently and it was completely broken. The actual GIMPShop project (a fork of GIMP aiming to be similar to Photoshop) was abandoned ~2006. Particularly fast ssd, large fast ram and lots of threads.GIMPShop is not a thing. ( just because I could practically proceed with my eyes closed, and I think having a really beefy system helps ) I just did some illustration painting ( which I rarely have time fer ) in the Photoshop beta and I have to admit that I loved every minute. You would think that any application that represents that lucrative of a cash cow would easily have serious competition featuring new paradigms "not" available in Photoshop conversly I would think that the Photoshop clones would be much closer in functionality? I imagine Photoshop is what gave/gives Adobe the kind of muscle to buy Macromedia for 1 Billion dollars? I guess after 18 years of Photoshopin' I am just married to her now. I think I was just disgruntled at the beta 6 release of Photoshop.
#GIMPSHOP ADWARE UPGRADE#
If I could not afford a new Photoshop upgrade I could survive.
Not that there were not promising bits and pieces. ( sans the graphic apps I already use and love ). However, I had a horrible experience with every alterantive alley I have tried Thanks, Aviary sounded promising but the original link I had pointed to a dead website. maybe Aviary Effects Editor is what you're after? Yeah GIMP 2.8 is nearing completion millimeter by millimeter ( RC1 is out).Īs far as "node-based". Never followed up after Apple bought it ) ( when Shake introduced brushes, I always assumed that someday it would be possible to just use it as a powerful non linear photoshop replacement. In general I wanted to explore options to Photoshop.Īnyone know of a non linear nodal tree compositing application that could be alternatively used as a graphics application? ( good brushes/brushing and powerful lasso? ) I tried the original authors blog link in the wiki article but got a 403. I assumed the guy would just give it up as I sadly let the project stagnate, but that hasn't happened It has been five years, the software has stagnated (due in no small part to my becoming discouraged by this one profiteer who trumped me, stole much of my traffic and bumped my site down to the second result when you search for "Gimpshop"). I questioned his motives and he said he was just a fan and that the site was a "fan-site". I asked that the owner stop hot-linking my files (and draining my bandwidth), so he hosted them somewhere else. Soon, there were donate buttons, my name in the site's title and much more - making it look like my website. Not more than a few days after the OS X version was released and spread virally, someone who isn't me bought "", put up a site with hot-links to the files on my site and began advertising - LOTS of advertising.