[CREATE] GIMP/Photoshop comparisons and videos

["Christoph Schäfer"]

Hi all,


The Swiss magazine "Publisher" will make available a series of articles on comparisons between GIMP and Photoshop CC. The articles will be freely available some time after the realease of each printed edition. More importantly, the written articles are only one part of the project, the other one being short training videos that will show how to achieve a task in GIMP and in Photoshop, respectively. They will also be freely available (for the time being). 

The articles will loosely refer to the videos (which will be produced first), but also add additional information and a summary describing how the two programmes compare. Producer of the videos is a professional Photoshop trainer who was forced to learn using GIMP due to increasing customer demand for GIMP trainings.

The first article plus videos has already been created and will be available in a month or so on www.publisher.ch. It will be about extracting image elements via Foreground Extraction/Quick Selection, optimising the selection via a layer mask and inserting the result into a new image. Next up: Liquid Rescale.

We still don't know how often and how many articles/videos we can create. It depends on our time, the editor's plans for each print edition, and audience feedback. There is a real possibility, though, that we can continue this until the end of 2017.

If you understand written and spoken German, you might want to have a look.


Enjoy!

Christoph


P.S.: For those who don't understand German, the result of the comparison regarding extraction etc. is: identical end results, Photoshop faster, but GIMP more flexible.