Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> High Plains Thumper on Wednesday
>
>> However, all the tools are there, transform, rotate, erase, etc. I
>> don't know what all the complaints about how bad this software is
>> exists. I used GIMP to clean up some digital photographs (crop,
>> correct perspective, tonality, contrast and brightness). It does it
>> and does it well.
>
> The GIMP does /far/ more. It's somewhat funny that people describe the
> GIMP as a program that does all the basic things.
True, so far I am really impressed with what it does. Like Peter
Kohlmann says, it is a far greater advantage to be able to spend $500
toward camera equipment afforded by using the tool. As I mentioned
before, people are not interested in what tool a person uses to arrive
at the result. They are interested in the result.
> By the way, Gary (flatfish) appears to have relocated to Digg where he
> acts like a Microsoft sniper in the UNIX/Linux section, pretending to be
> interested and involved ("We love Open Source"), but taking cheap shots
> at Linux (and myself). A few more personal attacks and I'll have this third
> account of his terminated. He began in a more polite fashion, which
> made it hard to throw him out, but he seems to have forgotten that it's
> moderated and he has recently lost control. Even the moderators hate
> him as he gets very negative scores. Once a shill, always a shill;
> everywhere one goes. Digg doesn't need that junk, and it needn't
> tolerate it either.
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HPT
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