{"id":5147,"date":"2010-02-19T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:43:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T19:43:21","slug":"transform-gimp-into-a-free-photoshop-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2010\/02\/19\/transform-gimp-into-a-free-photoshop-clone\/","title":{"rendered":"Transform GIMP into a free Photoshop clone"},"content":{"rendered":"

GIMP<\/a> is an excellent image edition software which could (should?) attract all those who do not want to pay the full price of Photoshop<\/a>, while they work with Apple, Windows or Linux. the differences are real, but the most obvious one is certainly the interface (and Adobe clearly did a nice work on it). So, why not try to prep up your GIMP to make it look like a near-clone of Photoshop?<\/p>\n

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Blair Mathis<\/a> decided to reduce the distance between them by the installation of several plugins<\/em> on GIMP. And the result is astonishingly interesting. All the more because the process is fully documented step-by-step, which makes it little more than a longer software installation.<\/p>\n

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  1. PSPI<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Layers<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Separate+<\/a> from Yellowmagic<\/li>\n
  4. Liquid Rescale<\/a> from Wikidot (for an image rescale without deformation as in CS4)<\/li>\n
  5. Additional brushes from Blendfu<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. GIMP Animation Package<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Enable GEGL<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But if this is not enough, there are also a few hacked versions of GIMP that have been already prepared for the Photoshop lovers. The most renowned are:<\/p>\n