Was The PortableApps.com Web Design Made From GIMP? (correct me if im wrong :P)
Wanting To Create A Web Design Myself 
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Done in Photoshop by a professional designer.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
errrrr i thought this site was made from gimp. haha
but im going to attempt with GIMP YAY lol.
it will look non-professional haha. cause im a bad designer
Na na na, come on!
from my experience the GIMP is almost just as good as Photoshop. I can do pretty much anything I can do in Photoshop in the GIMP
Photoshop has layer groups, which make complex images *SO* much easier to handle. Photoshop has much better layer effects, which we use on the site, splash screens, etc. And Photoshop handles text a lot better than GIMP. Much as I like GIMP, the little refinements and extras in Photoshop make it much easier for the pros to use.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
and Gimp is portable!
Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.
When working with more than 3 layers, groups are almost always necessary.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I've found many many articles on this, with avid supporters on both sides.
There are (currently) the limitations that John has listed, and a big one that pros need to send images to print: Photoshop has Pantone matching, which is a proprietary system used by must print shops.
That being said, I haven't seen any graphics on this site, or in the splash screens that can't be easily created using GIMP and Inkscape.
So to the original poster, GIMP and Inkscape should be fine for creating almost any website graphix you can imagine.
P.S. One theme that was repeated in many of the PS vs GIMP articles: at $600 a pop (and upgrades!), Photoshop is too expensive for anyone not able to write it off as a business expense.
Consequently, it is one of the most often cracked or pirated pieces of SW out there.
(From personal experience, almost every install I've ever seen was "borrowed" - most artists are so dirt poor that they can't afford to purchase it more than once)
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
I would say that Photoshop is a lot better than The GIMP, but gimp is free, which is why many go for it. I personally use FireWorks, just FYI.
For the nice effects on layers, Photoshop is great. That's why we use it. For the subtle things like being able to take a layer and apply multiple effects to it at the layer level that you can then go back and change as needed. These are effects that have to be applied at the raster level in GIMP and can't be altered or removed without going back to the original image and playing with them again. By applying them as effects at the layer level, it's dead easy to pop it back open and make a change or repurpose part of an image.
Don't get me wrong, I like GIMP and use it when I can. But from a pro prospective, GIMP still has many glaring omissions that affect functionality and a clunky interface. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Photoshop's interface either and much prefer Paint Shop Pro.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
here so I know what you mean. I'm so glad you use this as well.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
I consider Adobe to be similar to Microsoft - they buy up software developed by others, re-brand it, and then turn around and charge you an arm and a leg and your first-born child to use it and then a piece of your soul for every upgrade.
A prime example is Cool Edit Pro. Bought by Adobe and rebranded as Audition, they did minor development and then proceeded to price it out of the range of its former users.
NO thank you. I'll use Open Source wherever I can, even if it means I need to put out extra effort, and if I think the program is good, I'll donate to the developer.
So I'm sticking with the GIMP, and Inkscape, and Audacity,
and PortableApps.com!
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
I use the GIMP all the time. I especially like the newest version. The biggest issue for me with the GIMP is its lack of vector functionality.
But that's where Inkscape comes in.
It does a good job of converting raster to vector, which allows scaling in text to be much cleaner.
With Inkscape and the GIMP, I can make any image I need for my website.
Add in Powerbullet, and I can make flash like a semi-pro.
and the cost is, mmm, let me see, zero?
P.S. GIMP is part of the Google Summer of Code 2008. Apparently, it will be supporting GEGL, which will function like the adjustment layers and layer groups in Photoshop, unless I'm mistaken.
http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/SummerOfCode
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
(alliteration for emphasis)
piece of software, but is WAYYYY 
to expensive for someone like me. Photoshop is kind of like the giant army tank of features that an average user would only use for a trip to the grocery store 
. Personally, I could use the product productively, but right now the GIMP satisfies all my needs. If I ever get PS it will be from a job that provides all that expensive software as a benefit. Go GIMP.
Adobe PS is a pretty good
I have never heard of powerbullet! I have been searching for an alternative to Flash for a long time, and the only thing I found was Synfig studio, which is a pain in the A5S to install, it requires 3 environments in a special order. I have yet to do it successfully. I'm googleing it now!
I actually just posted a new post here:
https://portableapps.com/node/5516
The author had it freeware, went to paid, then back to freeware. It's got a following.
A nice thing is that there are lots of effects, including additional ones that you can download - and you can make your own custom effects with a LEETLE simple code.
The author wants to get help to make it OSS, but he's got 2 problems:
1. He doesn't know any developers that can take it on
2. He lost the source code for the latest release (it's written in Visual C ++ 6)
I was hoping that some of the great talent here would have the skills to help him.
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
Great that it is going OSS...
too bad he lost the source code.
Spread this around the forums & someone might help with both his problems.