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Over a year and a half ago, one of my best friends (who happens to be a professional graphics designer) was hired by a company and, as part of his sign-in deal, got brand new Mac loaded with Adobe’s Creative Suite 2 and several other applications for his home. A hell of a deal, if you ask me.

Knowing that he had a CS1 license that he wouldn’t bee needing anymore I convinced him to trade his license for a couple of seasons of Stargate: SG-1. Long story short, I was finally able to drop that old Photoshop 6 that I had downloaded off Kazaa (shame on me) and go ‘legit’.

I was a happy man. I now owned the weapon of choice for graphics proffessionals and would be able to create even cooler signatures for my forums and performs edits on my photos.

Enter Linux & The Gimp:

My days as a Photoshop user didn’t last too long. Several months ago, I decided to jump on the Linux bandwagon. I tried to get Photoshop to work in linux with wine, but I was not successful, so I was left with only one option: The Gimp

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I guess that if you are here you already know what GIMPshop is. If you don’t, here’s a quickie:

“GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.” — Wikipedia

Now, what do we need to install GIMPshop? The Gimp!

Let’s get started.

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