Re:Comments from people who actually create Creati (Score 1)

While not a designer, I am a photographer and own another photography company and use The GIMP every single day. Photo editing, upsizing(better than photoshop and it's 110% method), composites, everything. If you're a designer, you might be better off using Inkscape for your projects. That's what I used to design one of my logos. It always confused me why people wanting to do random original graphic work want to use a Photo Editing package. On a side note, Akkana is a member of my local LUG and did a little presentation a few months ago when the book came out. I think the book might disuade regular users of The GIMP from picking it up, but there's lots of good stuff in there even for experienced users. Now, everyone has complaints about some software package and being a photographer my biggest is the lack of IPTC editing in The GIMP. Filed a bug a while ago... the powers that be seem to think that IPTC is the same as EXIF!! Got around it by writing my own ITPC editing tool :) There are lots of poeple who had issues with the interface, I'm not one of them. In fact, I find the photoshop interface to be very awkward to use and am much more efficient in The GIMP.