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GIMPshop
Developer(s)Scott Moschella
Final release
2.2.11[1]Edit this on Wikidata / 16 May 2006
Operating systemMac OS X,Linux,Microsoft Windows,Solaris
TypeRaster graphics editor
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitesourceforge.net/projects/gimpshop.mirror/

GIMPshopwas a modification of thefreeandopen sourcegraphics programGNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP),with the intent to imitate thelook and feelofAdobe Photoshop.[2]

History

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GIMPshop was created byScott MoschellaofNext New Networks(formerlyAttack of the Show!) as an unofficial fork of GIMP. According to Moschella:

My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the GIMP accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. I hope I’ve done that. And maybe along the way, I can convert a Photoshop pirate into a GIMP user.[3]

He encountered resistance from GIMP's lead developers due to the methods he employed to implement his hacks.[4]GIMPshop was originally developed forMac OS Xas aUniversal Binary.It was ported toMicrosoft Windows,Linux,andSolaris.

Development of GIMPshop effectively ceased by 2007, with the final version being based on GIMP version 2.2.11. Some users extended the lifespan of GIMPshop by manually updating GIMPshop's libraries themselves.[5]

Features

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GIMPshop shared GIMP's feature list, customisability, and availability on multiple platforms, but had a differentgraphical user interfacemodeled on that ofPhotoshop.As a result, many tutorials for past versions of Photoshop could be followed in GIMPshop with little or no modification. All of GIMP's own plugins (filters, brushes, etc.) were available in GIMPshop.

Being based on GIMP, GIMPshop could not generateCMYKoutput files by default.[6]Users who needed to generate color separations required additional software, since commercial printing requires CMYK, not RGB color channels. A workaround was made available through theSeparate+plugin.[7]

In theWindowsversion, GIMPshop used aplugincalledDeweirdifyerto combine the application's numerous windows in a similar manner to theMDIsystem used by most Windows graphics packages. This added a unifying background window that fully contained the entire GIMPshop UI. A third-party add-on for GIMP provided support forPhotoshop plugins,calledpspi,onMicrosoft WindowsorLinux.[8]

For Mac OS X, GIMPshop was compatible only withPanther (10.3.x)andTiger (10.4.x).It requires theX11.app(based on theX Window Systemdisplay protocol) to render the user interface. Newer versions of X11 are no longer compatible with GIMPshop.

Status

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Due to pending concerns over rights to the GIMPshop name, and a dispute with the individual who purchased the gimpshop domain, plans for an update were abandoned. As explained by Moschella in 2010:

Not more than a few days after the OS X version was released and spread virally, someonewho isn't mebought "Gimpshop", put up a site with hot-links to the files on my site and began advertising -LOTSof advertising. Soon, there were donate buttons, my name in the site's title and much more - making itlooklike my website.

I asked that the owner stop hot-linking my files (and draining my bandwidth), so he hosted them somewhere else. I questioned his motives and he said he was just a fan and that the site was a "fan-site".

It has been five years, the software has stagnated (due in no small part to my becoming discouraged by this one profiteer who trumped me, stole much of my traffic and bumped my site down to the second result when you search for "Gimpshop" ). I assumed the guy would just give it up as I sadly let the project stagnate, but that hasn't happened.[9]

In a March 2014 discussion,[10]Moschella states:

I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.

….

I don't have a project site for it. I became discouraged after this whole ordeal and I let it slip away into obscurity.…. Gimpshop was a fun little 'prank' that got bigger than I ever expected. Sad what it has become, though.

See also

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References

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  1. ^"SourceForge - GIMPshop Files".
  2. ^"Gimpshop".PC World.Archived fromthe originalon 14 June 2012.Retrieved2009-03-05.
  3. ^"Announcing GIMPshop".Plastic Bugs. Archived fromthe originalon February 16, 2009.Retrieved2009-03-05.
  4. ^"A GIMP In Photoshop's Clothing:: OSDir:: Open Source, Linux News & Software".osdir. Archived fromthe originalon 2009-01-25.Retrieved2009-03-05.
  5. ^"GIMPshop on Snow Leopard".strayprocess. Archived fromthe originalon February 12, 2010.Retrieved2009-11-14.
  6. ^"Glossary".The GIMP Help Team.Retrieved9 February2012.
  7. ^Yamakawa, Yoshinori."Separate+".Yoshinori Yamakawa. Archived fromthe originalon 14 February 2015.Retrieved9 February2012.
  8. ^"PSPI: Running Photoshop plug-ins in GIMP".Tor Lillqvist. Archived fromthe originalon May 6, 2015.Retrieved2010-10-19.
  9. ^Moschella, Scott (1 February 2010)."What are my intellectual property rights here?".ask.metafilter.Archivedfrom the original on 31 December 2011.Retrieved23 January2012.
  10. ^"I haven't tried it myself so can't vouch for it but GimpShop fills a similar niche".YCombinator.Hacker News. 27 March 2014.Retrieved14 July2014.
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