A Gentle Transition From Photoshop
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Coming from Photoshop on the PC, I missed a lot of its special features like selective selection, levels and curves, layers, unsharp masks; stuff like that.
The Gimp came close, but the interface was so vastly different that it looked like a steep transition. Then I found GIMPshop which is a Gimp distribution—in somewhat of the style—of Photoshop.
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The Adjustments menu is SO close to that of Photoshop that once you've used one, you can quickly grasp the other.
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There are many, many tools here that aren't available in applications like iPhoto; in the quick and dirty example below I pasted a color transition on the screen, tidied it up with the cloning tool, put a shine on the apple, changed the background and finished off with an OS-style drop shadow; all in about three minutes.
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I still miss Photoshop, and will get the Mac version at some time, but for now GIMPshop will certainly suffice.
...And you can't beat the price.