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Awesome project, can this compete somehow with photoshop in the future? Project has almost everything, custom plug-ins, custom filters, open source, devs can develop bindings and etc,.

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I don't think so, Photoshop (and GIMP too) are oriented to the photographic community: the UI, the tools, most plugins, etc. This seems to be more aimed to students and researchers. Though in theory, if the processing engine in the back is as good (and there's no reason to think it isn't), it could, the UI would get in the way to perform the same tasks that you would on PS.

I read somewhere Gimp is more web base and Photoshop can be both print and web.

Since they did away with version for Cloud base, I think Gimp have an advantage.

I have used GIMP a little, GIMP is great, but my experience with it, was not enjoying. only advantage I could see using GIMP over photoshop is probably because it is free.

Try Krita.org then. It’s free, too, and a bit more focused on creative work, but it supports all the colorspaces, all the vector layers and everything. A lot more usable than GIMP, too.

First thing I thought about when I saw this was "can my wife, a photographer, use this instead of creating Actions in Photoshop to automated certain enhancements?" She does a lot of manual tweaking, but I'm going to show this to her tonight and see what she thinks.

Uhh, please just let us remind you that it is in beta, late beta but still beta. So be careful in a professional setup.

Excellent answer, I can't add more (except that we don't know about the processing engine of Photoshop (-, )!

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