Weaning myself off Windows has resulted in many happymakers (no, that’s not a word, and yes, the Swedish influence is creeping into my English). One of them is saying goodbye to the crap software churned out by Adobe.
No longer do I gasp in terror when I click on a PDF link. Adobe Reader pretty much ate my entire system’s resources whenever it loaded. GhostView, Gnome’s PostScript and PDF reader, hardly takes any resources at all.
And don’t get me started on the overpriced blob that is Photoshop, which gets bulkier and bulkier with every release. The worst part is that it’s buggy as hell. Case in point: I recently tried to do a color replacement on an image, and the color I was trying to replace happened to be gray. Adobe tells me I can’t replace gray colors and that there is “no workaround for this issue”. Gee, that’s helpful. I turned to Gimp on my Linux box, opened the image and went to Filters > Colors > Map > Color Exchange. Works like a charm, and it’s free.
I welcome comments and further examples of Adobe crappiness.
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I just this last weekend made the switch from windows to Ubuntu at home. I have to say I’m LOVING it. I went out and bough apress’ “Beginning GIMP From Novice to Professional”. I am using the amd64 version of feisty. I have to say that I am stunned at the performance differnce. Especially with Flash (which I installed on my linux box via wine). Normally flash OWNS your processor. I’ve never seen flash animations so smooth and perfect. Unbelieveable. Linux rules! Windows sucks the big one!!!!
Also. I’m pretty sure you can in fact color swap gray in photoshop. I’ll look into it and if I can I’ll send you a tutorial.
use swap gray in potoshop
Thanks for the tip. However, Photoshop is still slow and expensive and instead of upgrading I’m switching to Gimp.