{"id":16716,"date":"2014-06-25T06:14:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16716"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:58:12","slug":"bring-out-the-gimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/06\/25\/bring-out-the-gimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Out The GIMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I posted this back in June of 2014 when I was giving one of my Hackintoshes a test drive.<\/p>\n

I was sick of Apple’s pivot to non-repairability and distressed by Adobe’s equally sinister pivot to software as a service where what was once owned is now an eternal rental. This ran afoul of my frugal nature so I assembled an ersatz Mac from a pile of PC parts and sought out Photoshop alternatives like GIMP.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was before Affinity<\/em> released their Photosho<\/em>p and Illustrator<\/em> killers.<\/p>\n

…and well before Canva<\/em> bought up Affinity’s Photoshop<\/em> and Illustrator<\/em> killers.<\/p>\n

Anyway…<\/p>\n

Some minor computer catastrophe brought about the unfortunate deletion of this article’s artwork. I was going to reassemble it by recreating what I did originally, but I couldn’t find the photos involved.<\/p>\n

Here’s the article with a few placeholders and a couple of substitutions:<\/p>\n

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The G<\/strong>NU I<\/strong>mage M<\/strong>anipulation P<\/strong>rogram, that is! GIMP<\/a> for short, but you can call it the FREE<\/strong><\/em> version of Photoshop!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"I use Photoshop on a daily basis, and I wouldn’t say that GIMP is a same-to-same trade off for Adobe’s product, but it’s a very serviceable Raster graphics editor; is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and it’s FREE! <\/strong>Finding tools that are familiar in Photoshop is a little frustrating at first, but not paying a monthly and very annoying subscription fee makes it worth the effort. Admittedly, I have to delve deeper into the program in order to create some of the composite photo illustrations like the visual metaphors<\/a> I create, but, in the meantime, I’m having a lot of fun with some of GIMP’s weird and wondrous filters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s one of my low angle subway shots I took recently along the Market-Frankford<\/strong> line.<\/p>\n

{ARTWORK MISSING}<\/span><\/p>\n

I shot it with a little Nikon L11 and adjusted the levels a bit just so it pops a little better. Then I started having fun with the filters.<\/p>\n

\"Walking<\/a>