I fiddled around with Gimp recently and although I think it is a great (free!) program, it lacks the finesse of Corel PhotoPaint. That isn't surprising, since Gimp is built by volunteers who have regular day-jobs, while PhotoPaint is created by an army of professional programmers. What I miss most in Gimp are the on-canvas-controls that PhotoPaint abundantly offers. Such functionality significantly increases the working pace. Also the tools like the brushes in PhotoPaint are definable with greater accuracy, which is quite important when making portraits.
Perhaps because I'm used to working with it, I find PhotoPaint's user interface more logical while less need to dig into menus is necessary to find the desired tool. But I guess the Gimp programming team will at some time in the future catch up more or less, because there will be a decreasing amount of functions to improve in the process of taking a program to the perfect state, which allows trailing competition to catch up with the established players in the image manipulation realm.
The subject of this portrait is the captain Henk Kuipers of No Surrender MC, a motor club of a different kind in The Netherlands. Of course the mainstream media that is controlled by the ruling powers, disapproves of such clubs and does everything within its might to discredit NS, whether allegations are true or not.
The crux of the matter is that ruling class does not like opposition that is well organized and in disagreement with the policies imposed by them, like donating heaps of tax payer money to the unelected EU, destruction of health care and care for the elderly citizens, while implementing hugely burdening tax rules and constricting the educational system. Also the removal of legal restrictions for corporations and increase of limitations of citizen freedom and privacy are opposed by the new political party, named Rechtdoor, which in English translates to: Straight Ahead.
NS was even more viciously targeted by mainstream press when its captain's plan to enter the political arena were revealed. The valid, humane points in the program of newly established party would obstruct the Dutch government aim to impose austerity on its citizens while filling up the deep pockets of the already fortunate. Although the captain specifically stated that NS and his political ambitions would be kept strictly separated, the press wilfully ignored it and started its usual smearing campaign in an effort to prevent him from entering the political stage.
I haven't yet finished the Mark Twain portrait yet, but I may redo it in PhotoPaint some time in future. Like in all posts, the oldest stage is at the bottom and the most recent on top. Desktop computer users may want to click on one of the image to enter Blogger's Lightbox, which allows to swiftly scroll through the various stages in order to see the progress.
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Update September 2 2017
All of a sudden Corel PhotoPaint continuously crashes when attempting to export .png-files. Regardless of the size of the file. This is a basic function of photo-editing software and therefore very annoying. It pretty much renders the program unusable. I currently am in the process of switching to GIMP which is an open source program that actually is capable of performing this job properly. It is somewhat of a learning curve since the approach of the program is different, even tough there are many similarities where functionality is concerned.
After visiting a number of forums I noticed users have encountered this problem since at least version X5 of PhotoPaint. If Corel aims to compete with industry standard programs such as Photoshop it needs to fix this basic functionality or accept that it will not catch up with them (or that it may face even worse consequences). Personally, I'm done with waiting for this fix to take place and am watching GIMP tutorials in order to make the switch to a program that actually works properly.
Perhaps because I'm used to working with it, I find PhotoPaint's user interface more logical while less need to dig into menus is necessary to find the desired tool. But I guess the Gimp programming team will at some time in the future catch up more or less, because there will be a decreasing amount of functions to improve in the process of taking a program to the perfect state, which allows trailing competition to catch up with the established players in the image manipulation realm.
The subject of this portrait is the captain Henk Kuipers of No Surrender MC, a motor club of a different kind in The Netherlands. Of course the mainstream media that is controlled by the ruling powers, disapproves of such clubs and does everything within its might to discredit NS, whether allegations are true or not.
The crux of the matter is that ruling class does not like opposition that is well organized and in disagreement with the policies imposed by them, like donating heaps of tax payer money to the unelected EU, destruction of health care and care for the elderly citizens, while implementing hugely burdening tax rules and constricting the educational system. Also the removal of legal restrictions for corporations and increase of limitations of citizen freedom and privacy are opposed by the new political party, named Rechtdoor, which in English translates to: Straight Ahead.
NS was even more viciously targeted by mainstream press when its captain's plan to enter the political arena were revealed. The valid, humane points in the program of newly established party would obstruct the Dutch government aim to impose austerity on its citizens while filling up the deep pockets of the already fortunate. Although the captain specifically stated that NS and his political ambitions would be kept strictly separated, the press wilfully ignored it and started its usual smearing campaign in an effort to prevent him from entering the political stage.
I haven't yet finished the Mark Twain portrait yet, but I may redo it in PhotoPaint some time in future. Like in all posts, the oldest stage is at the bottom and the most recent on top. Desktop computer users may want to click on one of the image to enter Blogger's Lightbox, which allows to swiftly scroll through the various stages in order to see the progress.
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Update September 2 2017
All of a sudden Corel PhotoPaint continuously crashes when attempting to export .png-files. Regardless of the size of the file. This is a basic function of photo-editing software and therefore very annoying. It pretty much renders the program unusable. I currently am in the process of switching to GIMP which is an open source program that actually is capable of performing this job properly. It is somewhat of a learning curve since the approach of the program is different, even tough there are many similarities where functionality is concerned.
Update October 10 2018
Between the previous update and this one I encountered Affinity Photo - bitmap editor - and Affinity Designer - vector drawing program. These programs, created by Serif, never once crashed and were equipped with more than enough functions to create the project. I continued to work on the portrait in Affinity Photo and after that did the tattoos in Affinity Designer. So this portrait actually is a hybrid of bitmap and vector.
Meanwhile also Henk Kuipers was illegally incarcerated by the corrupt government and is jailed until this day without a single legal argument. This is how low the Dutch justice system has sunk. It means that people who haven't broken any law can be thrown in jail without a trial anyway. This is a blantant violation of the Universal UN Human Rights Declaration which makes the International Justice Court in The Hague an evil joke. Democracy in The Netherlands has been brutally assassinated by the the Dutch politicians. One time soon the people won't accept this any longer and drag crooked politicians, judges, lawyers, police officials, banksters and corporate leaders into the streets to obtain the internationally approved type of justice themselves that the utterly corrupt Dutch authorities have illegally been denying them.
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