#Inkscape vs gimp vector graphics software#
#Inkscape vs gimp vector graphics professional#

I think possibly Inkscape will be considered on par with Illustrator (certainly seems loved by those who miss FreeHand) before the GIMP comes up to Photoshop levels. Inkscape is amazing for being in beta (unless it’s finally gotten up to version 1.0 by now?). LAB either comes in 2.10 or comes later, I forget which. Gimp has traditionally lagged in CYMK colours and LAB, making it a second-choice for designers who also need to deal with print. Also GhostScript comes now standard in instead of you trying to add it yourself (never worked for me).

#Inkscape vs gimp vector graphics software#

One change is now if you are coming from the all-in-one software you can set GIMP up like that too (like GimpShop did) in place of separate boxes for tools etc. New GIMP2.8 coming out has many changes, but the big big changes are coming out in 2.10. That or always ask for a flattened PNG version for comparison.

This happened to me when I did the unmatched style CSSOff contest: I got marked down a lot of points because I could not tell where the textures all needed to be (my only hope was the crappy jpg they’d posted on their site).Įither you find out how the PSD must be saved when working with others who use Photoshop, or you must have a version of PS yourself (I would hope Elements is good enough) to double-check how it looks. One thing to be aware of when working with the GIMP is, when you get a PSD, GIMP can open it, but depending on how the PSD was saved, the textures and gradients may be screwed up. JavaScript, SASS, MooTools, PHP, HTML etc). Like mentioned, there are so many other MORE important things that using PhotoShop (e.g. It would be a little hard removing PhotoShop from the equation, but I honestly feel it’s not needed in designing a websites. Courses go even as far to state PSD - HTML - WordPress. There are so many PSD - HTML services out there, and not a single one is AI - HTML or JPEG - HTML, everything is about PhotoShop. PS is now become the standard in many ways. All we basically need are the ability to create shapes, define colours and add trasparencies and gradients whilst having a suitable package containing all the alignment and grid structure’s to it.

#Inkscape vs gimp vector graphics professional#

A similar process might happed with web design, as we don’t actually need a professional photo editing package to design websites. Just to illustrate a couple of years ago I would not dream of using something like this, as time progressed Dreamweaver-like solutions now are a thing of the past.

I have only now started using NotePad++ and it’s pretty amazing. I think in a couple of years time, products like InkScape and Gimp will get a better name for themselves in web design.