From Photoshop to Gimp

Having worked as a web-designer for 6 months using Photoshop, I spend last weekend exploring the possibilities of GIMP convincing myself that I could master it with minimal effort.
How wrong I was...
The GIMP interface, although nice, was just WAY too different for me. Now, I'm not a serious graphics designer (anymore), and all i really want to do is make some cool buttons/wallpapers/etc to spruce up my AL and show it off in the 'monthly screenshots' post. 8) But the things that got me stuck were:
1. The hotkeys (which I use a LOT!!) are so completely different.
2. The names given to tools/effects/commands are all different.
3. The windowing interface. What's the justification behind having so many windows scattered across the desktop? I hate it. With Photoshop it's one main window. In Gimp, you mis-click and you're either in another application or you've clicked on the desktop. Either way, you lose the hotkeys. Very annoying!
Thankfully, just today, I came across a bit of help to tackle two of the problems above!
To tackle the issue of hotkeys, I'd recommend this site below. it contains a remapping of all tools as per what they are in photoshop:
http://epierce.freeshell.org/gimp/gimp_ps.php
For the tools/effects/commands you can use GimpShop, which is VERY nice indeed! Check it out at:
http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241
(somewhere down the bottom of the page someone's even provided an ArchLinux pagakage!)
Now, the only issue remaining is the scattered-window-interface. Argh!! Putting that aside, I'm LOVING my Gimp now! I wish I had the patience to learn Gimp the Giimp way, but as I said, I don't want to dwelve too deep into it. I just want to get my ideas on screen without forking out $1000 AUD :shock:
Anyways, enough rambling. My icons look ugly. It's design time!! :twisted:

KENTOSI wrote:
iphitus wrote:
Everyone bags the interface.
It's not like photoshop is innocent too
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e … _2_OSX.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e … eraraw.jpg
I see multiple windows there.....
No... there's no problems with the interface design in the gimp. IMHO, it's superior. MDI based applications are the spawn of the devil.
iphitus
Hi iphitus,
I'm not sure about the apple screenshot you posted - but with the windows MDI interafce, say you clicked in the grey-background of the main window by mistake. now, say you wanted to use the 'rectangular-select tool'. You press 'M' in photoshop, and you're free to use that tool in any image window inside the MDI interface.
And you're free to use the tool in any of the gimp's images.
Now in Gimp there is no MDI interface. So say you click on the background by mistake. Then you hit 'R' (which is the Gimp version of the 'M' key from above). Nothing happens. Why? Coz you've lost focus to the application by clicking on the desktop (or some other window).
Well that's partially because you use a broken window manager, but really, it's not that bad, i know clicking the desktop by accident has never been an issue for me.
Solution: Go into GIMP, Preferences, Window Management, Set Hint for toolbox: 'Keep Above'.
Then maximize the image you work with and your gimp toolbox will be on top the whole time.
If you find the toolbox too big and space consuming, go to Preferences, theme, and select small.
What I'm getting at is application focus. Why should I have to alt-tab to get to windows that are part of the same application? It doesn't make sense to me ...
Inside Photoshop, you still have to change windows somehow. Probably using it's own keyboard combination, or the mouse. I'm betting you just use the mouse.
Whereas in the GIMP, you may use a standard keyboard combination, standard across the whole desktop. Not custom for each application, one to learn rather than ten. Or you may use the mouse, which is what I suspect you already use in Photoshop.
MDI vs SDI has been debated to death, take a google, you'll realise how flawed that MDI is. Which is why Microsoft is moving away from it, and Apple never used it in the first place.
Me, I'm a GIMP user who then went to Photoshop for school. And I find photoshop ridiculously frustrating to deal with. the windows within photoshop arent managed by the window manager, hence alt-tab and other standard forms of navigation fail to work.
I'm also used to the focus following my mouse around within linux, I dont have to click a window to use it, and it becomes annoying when that window I mouse over doesnt pop up as I would expect it to. While focus following the mouse is afaik non existant in windows, if they implemented MDI in Gimp, that would break the Gimp for me.
And if it's that bad.... Gimp is open source, write your own GTK MDI widget, enjoy the flames you'll receive, and you can have your own MDI Gimp.
iphitus

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My questions are: Does the PSD file have the printer information encoded?
Also why has this just started to show up? My wife has work successfully under the same conditions, files moved and printed on different printers, with no problems in the past.
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Anyway what I have found is that the PSD files that will not print have been printed on another printer at some time in the past. In my case the Printer was an Epson Artisan A50. The printer we are using now is the Epson Stylus Pro 3880. Even when trying to print wirelessly to the 3880 from the laptop (Was Vista, now Windows 7) that was used to edit and print with the A50, (USB connection) we saw the same error. So it seems that the printer information is somehow embedded in the PSD file (also mentioned in a Blog) and is keeping PS from seeing the printer because the same printer is not there.
Has anybody already found the fix?
I know this is a long post but I have been working on this problem and have heard all of the pat and frankly useless answers and workarounds. Can we find a solution and fix the problem?

Just a few examples, since you ask:
Dr Craig wrote:
…The first suggestion is absurd to the point of making me wonder what process is used to construct the kbs…
…Other solutions are not acceptable…
…The final solution offered is that CS5 has solved all of this. Hum? interesting. No comment except new program, new problems so not a real solution for us…
…In every case the problem is never solved by Adobe or anyone else and users find some "workaround"…
"...a nasty, nasty solution"…
…Adobe does seem supportive but not that interested (CS4 right)… b
…I have been working on this problem and have heard all of the pat and frankly useless answers and workarounds…
That attitude, Dr. Craig. Plus the verbosity you unconscionably inflicted on your fellow forum users.
Cheers.
Wo Tai Lao Le
我太老了       (Not posting as a scientist here
                           but as a Photoshop user
                           so I'll forego listing any unrelated academic titles.)

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Hey community! I found a few similar posts, but couldn't find much of a resolution.
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> via the gif animation import
There is no such feature in DW. DW knows nothing about GIF
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>i have made a gif animation in photoshop (it is set to
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>plays
> fine, but when its imported into dreamweaver via the gif
animation import
> in
> dreamweaver, it wont play when viewed in a browser
> thanks
>

Gif animations from photoshop

i have made a gif animation in photoshop (it is set to
forever), which plays fine, but when its imported into dreamweaver
via the gif animation import in dreamweaver, it wont play when
viewed in a browser
thanks

> via the gif animation import
There is no such feature in DW. DW knows nothing about GIF
images other than
the fact that they are images. I'm guessing that you did not
properly
export the animated GIF from Photoshop. When you open that
image in the
browser, does it animate?
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>i have made a gif animation in photoshop (it is set to
forever), which
>plays
> fine, but when its imported into dreamweaver via the gif
animation import
> in
> dreamweaver, it wont play when viewed in a browser
> thanks
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Photoshop elements 11
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I have been doing this exact process for over a year now, it works every time, the images are pasted at actual size and are not modified in any way regardless of how huge they were.
This morning they suddenly started showing up as dinky, useless thumbnails.
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Why is this happening, and how do I fix it?

Finchypoo wrote:
At work, I am constantly sending previews of artwork through email. I CmdShiftC in Photoshop to copy merged (this essentially takes a screen shot of your current selection in a Photoshop document, then I Cmd+V to paste it into mail.
I have been doing this exact process for over a year now, it works every time, the images are pasted at actual size and are not modified in any way regardless of how huge they were.
This morning they suddenly started showing up as dinky, useless thumbnails.
There is no option in mail I can find to control this, and the multitude of other posts in this forum about the same complaint mention a little popup in the bottom right when you have an attached image.
it's not a popup, it's a little scroll button. and you should be getting it when you attach images. however, in my experience, sometimes this button doesn't show up for whatever reason. the following method works for me when I run into this problem (which happens with some regularity btw). start a new blank outgoing message and attach an image to it. don't do it from photoshop. just drag some large image from finder to the message composition window. hopefully, the scroll button will show up. adjust it to "actual size" and close that message composition window. next time you attach an image to a measge it will use the same setting to display the image, i.e. 'actual size".
I do not have this popup, there is nothing in the bottom right of my window.
Why is this happening, and how do I fix it?

Is it possible to export Vector Smart Objects as vector SVG files from Photoshop CC 2014?

I have Vector Smart Objects copied from Illustrator and pasted into Photoshop. I would like to export them as vector SVG files (using Generator or Extract Assets). I can add the .svg extension to the layer and actually export an SVG just fine. The problem is any SVG I have exported have all been raster images. It defeats the purpose of having that as an option as far as I'm concerned.
I remember watching and listening to keynotes and other speakers at Adobe MAX 2014 who said it was so powerful and amazing to create SVG files from Photoshop. If we're still exporting raster SVG files from Photoshop...that's not very impressive or exciting--especially since this era of modern web development benefits greatly from using vector SVG files.
I understand that Shape Layers can be exported as vector SVG files but that seems very limiting. I also realize that users can create some impressive vectors in Photoshop, but that is not optimal. Illustrator is a better tool for creating vectors and I normally use Photoshop and Illustrator side-by-side. I know that vector SVG files can be exported from Illustrator but that isn't as user friendly and convenient as utilizing Photoshop > Generator > Reflow.
My idea was to create my assets in Illustrator, paste them into Photoshop as Vector Smart Objects, set up my layout, and then use the Generator/Reflow method or Extract Assets to get a new web design started.
Maybe I misunderstood what the speakers at Adobe MAX had said. Perhaps it's just user error and I'm just missing something simple (it happens).
Photoshop CC 2014 notes the following under Help > System Info:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 2014.2.2 20141204.r.310 2014/12/04:23:59:59 CL 994532 x64
Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance for your time.

Not quite the same, but have a look at the new Libraries feature that came with 2014.2.2 I just tried it, and dragging a vector object into a library I created in Photoshop, was there in Illustrator. This happens without having to close and reopen Illustrator. Just use the drop down at the top of the Libraries panel (in Illustrator) to find your custom, or job specific library.

Different Colors when printing from Photoshop and InDesign CS3

Different Colors when printing from Photoshop and InDesign CS3
I have the following problem:
When printing from Photoshop or InDesign to a PostScript printer, Adobe recommends to let Photoshop handle the colors (I use the German version, so I don't know the exact term used, it changes slightly in all CS3 apps anyway).
The manufacturer however told me to let the PostScript printer handle the colors.
When I chose this option in Ps's print dialog and then choose ISO Coated as the printer pfofile, the results are fine.
But when I place the exact same image in an InDesign file and print from InDesign or export to PDF and print via Acrobat, again using "Printer handles colors", the results are the exact same as if I had used Ps and chosen to let Ps handle the colors (way too saturated and a bit too red).
·Photoshop CS3
·InDesign CS3
·Test image is a TIFF in CMYK Fogra 27 Coated (which is also the working color space in Ps and ID.
·Printer: Xerox Docucolor 3535
·Printer profile: ISO Coated
How can I make sure the printer handles the colors in other CS3 apps than Ps? I tried it with ID's print dialog (translated from the German version: Color Management > Options > Color Handling: PostScript-printer decides colors).
Thanks a lot!

RE: "You don't indicate what Xerox printers you have"
In my first post I named it, is that the information you need?
Docucolor 3535 using Splash 3535
That's interesting, so I have to find a way to turn off the printer's Color Management function? I mailed them, hope they can tell me how to do it easily. They usually just tell me to not use any profiles and so on, but that's the general rule in this area, I'm really tired of hearing it. Everybody seems to think profiles and LAB mode are nuclear science and I should stay away from it.
Anyway, the test image I'm using is a simple photograph (size A3, 300dpi), so no transparencies at all. I'm placing this image into an equally large ID file and print it from ID, then export it to PDF-X/3 and print it from Acrobat. Hope that helps.

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