In article <oYdDi.4941$>,
measekite wrote:
When will Gimp get better so it will give PS a run for the money.
The short answer is "never."
The long answer is:
A program like Photoshop can not be created by computer programmers. All the world’s best, brightest, most talented, most skilled computer programmers (and let me be very clear on this point: many programmers in the open source community are brilliant, highly skilled, and extremely talented) could never produce Photoshop.
Photoshop required, and still requires, collaboration between computer programmers, digital signal processing experts, experts in color theory and color modeling, experts in prepress and print, experts in color management, and people highly skilled in other similar fields. While you can probably find people with these talents in many occupations, bringing them all together in one place in order to create a project on the scale of Photoshop is unlikely in the open-source community, for a large number of logistical, financial, and other reasons.
Additionally, Photoshop, which is the product at this point of more than fifteen years’ worth of work (that’s about two and a half centuries in computer and application design years), embodies many proprietary, patented techniques and developments, which pose additional challenges for anyone (open source or no) to implement equivalent or better functionality in another program.
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