OT:Photoshop CS compatibility

[Jason]

John Williamson <[email protected]> écrivait @mid.individual.net:



You're right, when I saw Creative Suite, that's what I've downloaded.
I've just checked again and and PS alone is there indeed. It's only a
question of language. She has an Adobe account, may be she could get a
french version through that account.

For now, she's thinking about buying the most recent, she can get an "edu"
price at about $250CA.

There is a Preferences setting for language. If you hunt through the
installation, you'll find Resources for all the languages. I only use the
en-us version, so I am not familiar with how to change, but it should be
possible.

 

[Dominique]

John Williamson <[email protected]> écrivait @mid.individual.net:

She could try GIMPshop, which is the GIMP with a front end that behaves
sort of like Photoshop. They don't get any cheaper.....

http://www.gimpshop.com/

1st - I visited the site but it seems to want to install something called
"Optimum installer", I don't know what that is and I'm not sure I want this
kind of things on a freshly installed Windows.

2nd - Does it have a French version or is it a multi-language installer, I
didn't see it on the site.

Thanks

 

[Paul]

John Williamson <[email protected]> écrivait @mid.individual.net:



1st - I visited the site but it seems to want to install something called
"Optimum installer", I don't know what that is and I'm not sure I want this
kind of things on a freshly installed Windows.

2nd - Does it have a French version or is it a multi-language installer, I
didn't see it on the site.

Thanks

The project has an interesting background. It's hard to tell
who owns that site. Probably not Scott Moschella (as described here).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimpshop

Optimum Installer.

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-...ryte Optimum Installer/detailed-analysis.aspx

Paul

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

John Williamson <[email protected]> écrivait @mid.individual.net:



1st - I visited the site but it seems to want to install something called
"Optimum installer", I don't know what that is and I'm not sure I want this
kind of things on a freshly installed Windows.

2nd - Does it have a French version or is it a multi-language installer, I
didn't see it on the site.

Thanks

Go to the *real* Gimp site,
http://www.gimp.org/

You should be a lot happier there

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Go to the *real* Gimp site,
http://www.gimp.org/

You should be a lot happier there

Except I was apparently confused.

I suddenly realized that GIMPshop is not an alternative place to find
GIMP...

When I clicked on the "Download for Windows" button at

http://www.gimpshop.com/welcome

it looked normal, and offered to download Gimpshop_Setup.exe, which
sounds innocuous to me.

But I haven't tried to run it yet.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Except I was apparently confused.

I suddenly realized that GIMPshop is not an alternative place to find
GIMP...

When I clicked on the "Download for Windows" button at

http://www.gimpshop.com/welcome

it looked normal, and offered to download Gimpshop_Setup.exe, which
sounds innocuous to me.

But I haven't tried to run it yet.

Never mind. My brain is not in ger yet today

Scrolling down the download page, I see screen shots of the Optimum
Installer (I still haven't executed the download).

I see in those screenshots that Optimum Installer offers to install a
toolbar and so on, so it's now (at last) raising my alarm flags too.

Googling for Optimum Installer picked up a number of hits, including
instructions for removing Optimum Installer.

This site

www.dslreports.com/forum/r27821791-Is-Optimum-Installer-Adware-or-Malware-

was my first hit, and several posts in that thread call it a Spybot
false positive. ATM, it's the only link I've looked at.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

My brain is not in ger yet today

Gear. That sentence was obviously self-referent

The spell checker didn't notice it, so ger must be a legitimate word
(this spell checker has a few problems).

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Never mind. My brain is not in ger yet today

Scrolling down the download page, I see screen shots of the Optimum
Installer (I still haven't executed the download).

I see in those screenshots that Optimum Installer offers to install a
toolbar and so on, so it's now (at last) raising my alarm flags too.

Googling for Optimum Installer picked up a number of hits, including
instructions for removing Optimum Installer.

This site

www.dslreports.com/forum/r27821791-Is-Optimum-Installer-Adware-or-Malware-

was my first hit, and several posts in that thread call it a Spybot
false positive. ATM, it's the only link I've looked at.

Looking at several links in that Google search, I came to the conclusion
that I don't like Optimum Installer.

To be fair, though, there is this site,
http://klitedownload.com/learnmore.html

which claims to give information about Optimum Installer, including how
to get rid of the software it might install.

Still...

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Looking at several links in that Google search, I came to the conclusion
that I don't like Optimum Installer.

To be fair, though, there is this site,
http://klitedownload.com/learnmore.html

which claims to give information about Optimum Installer, including how
to get rid of the software it might install.

Still...

One last word (don't you hope?) --

http://www.gimphoto.com

Which includes a link to

http://www.gimphoto.com/2007/08/features.html

which bills itself as a "free Photoshop alternative for photo and image
editor"

Which is slightly tricky grammar

 

[John Williamson]

John Williamson <[email protected]> écrivait @mid.individual.net:



1st - I visited the site but it seems to want to install something called
"Optimum installer", I don't know what that is and I'm not sure I want this
kind of things on a freshly installed Windows.

My deepest apologies. The site was clean last time I installed Gimpshop
from that URL.

Obviously someone's been hacking at it. :-/

Whe it works right, it's pretty close to the PS interface.

 

[John Williamson]

Never mind. My brain is not in ger yet today

Scrolling down the download page, I see screen shots of the Optimum
Installer (I still haven't executed the download).

I see in those screenshots that Optimum Installer offers to install a
toolbar and so on, so it's now (at last) raising my alarm flags too.

Googling for Optimum Installer picked up a number of hits, including
instructions for removing Optimum Installer.

This site

www.dslreports.com/forum/r27821791-Is-Optimum-Installer-Adware-or-Malware-

was my first hit, and several posts in that thread call it a Spybot
false positive. ATM, it's the only link I've looked at.

When I checked it just now, it seems tha Kaspersky doesn't like the
GIMPshop site either. Apologies for the bad link.

 

[Paul]

My deepest apologies. The site was clean last time I installed Gimpshop
from that URL.

Obviously someone's been hacking at it. :-/

Whe it works right, it's pretty close to the PS interface.

Did you read what happened to the developer ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimpshop

No matter how good your intentions are, there's always someone
to take advantage of your work on the Internet.

Paul

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Did you read what happened to the developer ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimpshop

No matter how good your intentions are, there's always someone
to take advantage of your work on the Internet.

Paul

And...what a tangled web we weave...

That story is a real bummer - no good deed goes unpunished.

Oy weh.