[WEB4LIB] RE: photoshop

[Mark Pecaut]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:10:37PM -0800, Cory Stier wrote:
> I've used PaintShop Pro from Jasc Software (http://www.jasc.com) for 4 years
> now, and have always been happy with it. The current boxed version is $109
> US, so it's reasonably cheap.
> 
> I've also used both the Linux and Windows version of the GIMP
> (http://www.gimp.org/), which I have found to be a very useful and very
> powerful package (which is also freeware). The Windows version of the GIMP
> can be downloaded from http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/. The only thing
> I don't like about the GIMP is that you can't save images in GIF format
> because of the issue of Compuserv owning the copyright for GIF. But you can
> save images in many other formats including JPEG and PNG.

Don't know about the windows version, but you can save as gif format in
the Unix version.  You can't change the file type to gif in the dialog box,
but if you put the .gif extension at the end of your filename, it will 
save as gif.  Maybe it is a secret feature?

-Mark