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Date:      Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:42:01 -0600
From:      Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net>
To:        Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: photoshop
Message-ID:  <20041026214201.GB867@procyon.nekulturny.org>
In-Reply-To: <d9175cad04102614021e4f812@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ef60af09041025123647cded21@mail.gmail.com> <417D8C33.6080605@nc.rr.com> <ef60af0904102521374f9c08ba@mail.gmail.com> <200410261518.47337.ekeberg@bigpond.net.au> <ef60af090410252311322b6627@mail.gmail.com> <d9175cad04102614021e4f812@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:14PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:11:45 +0200, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Is there a way to translate photoshop files into gimp files and gimp
> > into photoshop files ?
> 
> If I'm understanding this right -- then of course, both editors (gimp
> and photoshop) deal with jpegs, gifs, bmps, etc...it doesn't do much
> good in the Real World (TM) to use crazy proprietary formats because
> browsers/etc simply can't render them.

True, but the crazy proprietary formats are still important because you lose
information when you convert a Photoshop document to a raster image, in just
the same way as you lose information when you convert a C source file into
an object file.

-- 
Danny



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