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GIMPshop is a hacked version of the GIMP by Scott Moschella called in which Scott has renamed and reorganized GIMP’s tools, options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions. Many of the menu options and even whole menus were recreated to faithfully reproduce a Photoshop-like experience.
GIMPshop is essentially the same program as the GIMP with some cosmetic changes.
The Gimp’s menu structure and naming conventions are a source of frustration for users used to Photoshop. The original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the Gimp accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there.
For example hare are the Photoshop and GimpShop Image menus side by side.
And the respective Tools Palettes.
If you’ve never used Photoshop before, you may not appreciate the GIMPshop hack, which renames and reorganizes GIMP’s tools, options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions. Many of the menu options and even whole menus were recreated to faithfully reproduce a Photoshop-like experience.
Longtime Photoshop users should feel very comfortable using GIMPshop.
GIMPshop is by no means a 1-to-1 copy of Photoshop and you may find some menu items that are not in perfect order. But GIMPshop’s pretty close, and I think it does the job. I’m getting lots of use out of it and I hope you do too.
Is it finally time to ditch Photoshop and go open source? Almost.
Mac GIMPshop downloads:
Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: Download Gimpshop 2.2.11 (self-contained app) (85 MB)
In OS X, you will also need X11 or XDarwin in order to launch and run Gimpshop. Recommended install X11 from your OS X Tiger Install DVD.
GIMPshop for Mac OS X 10.3: 40 MB Download.
Note: You will need to download and install Apple’s X11 in order to run GIMPshop. If you don’t have X11 yet, it’s free but you will have to provide your name and email address at Apple.com to download it.
Download: Gimpshop 2.2.10 self-contained app for OS X 10.3/10.4 (66 MB)
Also, in order to run Gimpshop you will need to download and install Apple’s X11 if you don’t already have it.
Download GIMPshop 2.2.4 for OS X 10.3 (43 MB Download)
Also, you will need to download and install Apple’s X11 if you don’t already have it.
Don’t forget to use the Photoshop shortcuts for super GIMPshop power (the shortcuts file is included with every GIMP distribution). Mac users, follow instructions in the README.
GIMPshop is Open Source software
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