Well, I’ll have to hanker down and do a 1-to-1 analysis and report back……should be an interesting comparison.

Not really, I took a look at GIMP around three years ago when the guys I worked for then were switching to open source for everything they used in their business-at the time, apart from the obvious benefits of being open source, I couldn’t see anything that it had over photoshop and I was wondering if it had changed in such a way that it offered anything that wasnt just cosmetic (like interfaces) that Photoshop doesnt. For me, having been using Photoshop since it came on floppy discs I am heavily invested in it-but if any software does something awfully clever Photoshop doesnt Im still interested 😉

mainly interface, configuration, workability and portability issues……..

are you asking a question about a specific task?

I don’t really use filters other than Noise ninja….