Looking for a Photoshop alternative ? Please take a look into Gimp, I'm using it for a long time now. If the money you pay for licensing Photoshop was put in new creative ideas in Gimp, I'm pretty sure it would look as awesome, as Photoshop! Take a look please :)
The Gimp is a good alternative to pirating Photoshop, but people who pay $4k for Photoshop will not use the Gimp for free. Not now and probably not ever. It's just not at all comparable for professional use. Just like OpenOffice Calc vs. Excel.
This is the real solution to the "Adobe problem". They are still living in the old world of high priced software and are able to charge these ridiculous prices because they don't face any real competition. Gimp is pretty good but still needs lots of work and/or a killer feature or two to convince people to abandon Adobe. Contribute to Gimp if you can!
That's so true! What I see is, there's so many creative people using Photoshop, putting so much money into Adobe. They could contribute with their own views, ideas, needs, etc. Gimp would become ridiculous good just because of that!