(05-30-2021, 08:28 PM)cnrtechspot.com Wrote: Someone told me :Be careful about fan boys/girls pseudo arguments (both side), and this is a pseudo argument!
" Degrade and GFX ( I don't know what they are really) in Photoshop is not in Gimp and they are important.
Are they really important and Is Gimp good much like Photoshop?
I did a quick search about GFX, it seems to be the Photoshop's engine for filters and others effects(I might be wrong, though), you can safely say that Photoshop does not have GEGL, but GIMP has it.
On both side, those "arguments" do not make ANY sense!
Two things you need to know:
1) GIMP has few limitations compared to Photoshop, for instance it has no mesh tool like in Photoshop or Krita, but this tool can be over come with G'MIC (gmic.eu) or other plugins, or even with some GIMP filters like the "Curves Bend...". It's not perfect, though, but the job can be done.
2) On the over hand you will go a lot faster and it's easier to create different type of planets and star field in GIMP than in Photoshop (just an example), as GIMP has at least 3 different type of true "sphere" tools with light effect, and Photoshop has just a simulated "spherize" which is more on a lens effect than a sphere, unless you use the Photoshop's 3D menu -> (did you ever use it?).
If you remember that GIMP is NOT Photoshop, and Photoshop is NOT GIMP, everything will be fine.
What you do in one software will have a different workflow in the other one.
Both software are excellent and you will never use them at 100%, ever!
By the way, if any doubts, NASA and JPL use GIMP for their orbital telescope and other radar in space or what so ever imaging from space... images in 64 bit like FITS file...
In the end, it seems you are not a master of Photoshop either (you don't know what is GFX nor Degrade), which means that every project you did in Photoshop was using these "general standard tools" that you will find in GIMP as well. GIMP can open your PSD, you can use your preferred Photoshop's brushes in GIMP (80% of the time photoshop's brushes work in GIMP).
So to answer your most important question
(05-30-2021, 08:28 PM)cnrtechspot.com Wrote: Can projects that I can with Photoshop done with Gimp?
YES!