Sunday December 03, 2006

I bought my Apple Mac Book Pro back in March and have been waiting ever since for the opportunity to give Adobe $650 for a copy of Photoshop CS2 that supports the Intel Macs. Waiting and waiting.

I'm done waiting. I've taken another look at the GIMP, the popular free image editing tool, and it looks very good. Much more sophisticated than the simple tool I remember from years ago. It has support for Layers, for example. And more transforms than I'll ever use. It also supports, via a separate free plug-in, Canon RAW format. I installed both the base Gimp.app and the UFRaw plug-in. The installation was both simple and smooth. I'm still learning my way around the program, but it looks good so far.

Yesterday, I bought a copy of Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional by Akkana Peck, which looks like a good introduction to the GIMP. My only expenditure so far.