GIMP vs Photoshop for logo design

Yes Gimp does not have that but I don't know what it is? What is it?

 

CYMK are the Printer's version of RGB. Cyan (blue), Yellow, Magenta and Key (black).

On a monitor, adding all the colours together gives you white, like the sun. The colours are radiating out towards your eyes.

On paper, adding all the colours together gives you black (or actually, an icky blackish greenish brown, which is why printers add K (black) to the three main colours). The colours are reflected off the paper. (Please note I'm probably using the incorrect optical terms where you see "radiating" and "reflecting" but you know what I mean.)

RGB (red, green, blue) colours don't translate directly to inks. Taking a RGB image and sending it to a printer directly makes black into white, and for instance blue will look kinda purplish. Printers use many colour lists, the best-known being Pantone (which is expensive, Pantone makes colour numbers and schemes for pencils inks etc).

If your graphics programme has a CYMK (or even LAB which is another form used by graphics artists), as I believe Photoshop (and not just them) does, then after you make your image, you can translate that into CYMK colours, and send THAT to the printer. In general, CYMK from RGB looks dull. I dunno what printers do to work around that, but obviously, people can print bright greens and reds cause we see them on the side of the highway all the time.

Wikipedia is probably your friend here too, I should've checked them first to get my optical terms right (my new sig: I'm no expert, but I can fake one on teh Interwebs).

 

Neither. Use inkscape for logos, its really good.

As for GIMP vs Photoshop, I think GIMP is for people using ubuntu or other types of linux, while photoshop is great for people using windows. That being said, photoshop costs an awful lot for the occasional artist like me, so I'd rather go with GIMP, just because its free.

 

Really?? it isn't? man i didn't know that
when did i ever say it was a vector program?? you don't need a vector program to get proper looking outlines, its easily done in photoshop/photoimpact/paintshop pro, but Gimp can't do it since its anti-lising isn't so good, face it i use both i know what i'm talking about

 

Gimpshop has CYMK support
http://plasticbugs.com/?p=361

But you already knew that : )

 

Though Gimp works on both

To the OP, yeah, vectors make logos look much nicer, and get this-- let's say for instance you've designed this beautiful logo (vectored) for the law firm Dewey Cheetum and Howe, and then Dewey and Howe leave and it's just Cheetum & Partners. Oh man, you gotta do that whole logo over... or do you? The text being seperate, you could just change the text in a text file (depending on how you made the logo in the first place) and you're done. I saw this technique once and was OmiGawd, *drool.

I've never seen the difference, so I'll have to take your word for that. If this is one of those special patented algorithms, then Gimp's outta luck, they can't use it. When I zoom in, I just see variations of opacity on the surrounding pixels. If I didn't like the aliasing, I'd just change it myself with a brush or an eraser.

 

Actually no, Nuts, I didn't know. Thanks for the headsup, though I don't use Gimpshop (like my tools seperate from my images) nor a Mac. Last I heard on gimp news, CYMK wasn't going to be added to the 2.4 release.

 

Gimpshop works on windows as well as mac but the downside is that the updates are coming out slow. your right about 2.4 though it wont support CYMK.

by the way the 2.4 candidate version for windows was released today, check it out.

 

I would but I don't have WIndows : ) but thx

Edit:wait, I do have one at work. I bring my Linux laptop to work and Gimp there, but got a Windows machine recently to use Flash. I'll check it out.

 

PTS is general graphics software isn't tended severally, I see still better PTS.