{"id":28,"date":"2007-05-17T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/bring-out-the-gimp.html"},"modified":"2007-05-17T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:57:00","slug":"bring-out-gimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/bring-out-gimp.html","title":{"rendered":"Bring Out the GIMP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe released their new Creative Suite, including programs that they ate when they bought out Macromedia. I was hoping that their price structure would make things a little cheaper. I guess I should read a basic economics book because if a company controls a certain niche, they can apparently charge whatever they want. Goodbye $100 Dreamweaver. It&#8217;s now $194. Educational versions cannot be upgraded and the price to buy them new is the same as a normal upgrade. Uh, thanks? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not just here to complain though. The good news is that there are always cheap, even free, alternatives. Enter the replacement players! I&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">GIMP<\/a> on my computer out of curiosity but now I&#8217;m learning how to use it in earnest. A program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realmacsoftware.com\/rapidweaver\/\">Rapidweaver<\/a> claims to be a Dreamweaver replacement. I still need something to replace Illustrator. OmniGraffle is close, but not quite the same niche. Maybe there&#8217;s something else out there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blogpic\"><a href=\"..\/..\/blog\/files\/pictures\/GIMP.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/blog\/files\/pictures\/GIMP_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Me using GIMP\" \/><\/a><br \/>{I&#8217;m using GIMP to add shading to page 6, coming out soon!}<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe released their new Creative Suite, including programs that they ate when they bought out Macromedia. I was hoping that their price structure would make things a little cheaper. I guess I should read a basic economics book because if a company controls a certain niche, they can apparently charge&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/bring-out-gimp.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Bring Out the GIMP!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[180,21,12],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}