Thanks. I'm on CS3 and about to move to CS5. Your comments on GIMP are
surprising since it was my understanding that GIMP has no support for
layers. I used to use Picture Window Pro (and still do occasionally for
some things) but once I got used to PS layers there was no going back.
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/19/2010 9:33 AM, Willie Wonka wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> You need to download a program called Wine. It works extremely well
> under it, although I havent really grasped Wine...me thinks there is
> a bug in the version I downloaded.
>
> I was expecting degradation of performance, but was pleasantly
> surprised that it does not run slower unlike the Virtual PC program I
> ran on my Mac years ago. VPC slowed the computer quiet a bit.
>
> Interesting that I "inherited" my laptop from wife and kid who were
> fed up with it, coz it didnt work right after only half an year of
> use. I got it and installed Ubuntu distribution package. Didnt
> bother to set it up as a double boot, because as I mentioned before,
> it never worked right under Windoz. What a difference this move
> made...it never crashed and it is pretty fast
>
> Ubuntu has a "Software Center" menu under the Applications tab.
> Thats where I got Wine from. There are other distributions, but I
> choose it, because of its support.
>
> I dont know which version of PS you have, I am still stuck on CS2. I
> found the current version of GIMP more featured than CS2 and in my
> opinion, both programs are very similar. The learning curve is
> almost non-existent.
>
> Best
>
> Boris
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