![]() ![]() I asked that the owner stop hot-linking my files (and draining my bandwidth), so he hosted them somewhere else. ![]() Soon, there were donate buttons, my name in the site’s title, and much more – making it look like my website. “Not more than a few days after the OS X version was released and spread virally, someone who isn’t me bought “”, put up a site with hot links to the files on my site, and began advertising – LOTS of advertising. In a question and answer post on the social sharing site Metafilter in 2010, Moschella gave a quick overview of what went wrong: Partly because of his tech world credentials, and partly because it was an idea whose time had come, GIMPshop went as viral as anything could in those days, and began to build a serious following.īut almost immediately, things began to go sideways. And maybe along the way, I can convert a Photoshop pirate into a GIMP user,” Moschella explained in an archived post from 2006. “My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make GIMP accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. It reskinned parts of the interface, renamed features to match those found in Photoshop, and added extra filters. GIMPshop started in the mid-2000s as the brainchild of TechTV producer Scott Moschella, with the goal of turning GIMP into Photoshop. So what’s the relationship between GIMP and GIMPshop? If you don’t already have a good malware scanner, my personal favorite is Malwarebytes which offers a free version as well as a 14-day trial of their premium features here. The original open-source GIMPshop project has been duplicated by scammers using it as a way to install spyware and adware. Gimpshop | The Photoshop Free Alternative (Beware) m3griffi m3griffi at uwaterloo.Important: If you have already installed GIMPshop, stop reading right now and run a full anti-virus and malware scan of your computer. On 02:22 PM, Donald Duff-McCracken wrote: Previous message: Gimpshop | The Photoshop Free Alternative (Beware). > BEWARE of the site as it is slimey! I was on it and it looked a bit cheesy so I looked up gimpshop in Wikipedia to find out that this other site is owned by a squatter who is ripping off the creator of gimpshop and effectively discouraging him from further developing the software (from Wikipedia entry): “I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. I became discouraged after this whole ordeal and I let it slip away into obscurity.” I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination… I don't have a project site for it. > So sadly this does not look like a reliable alternate. > For what it is worth, this is the legit site >. > This email communication is intended as a private communication for the sole use of the primary addressee and those individuals listed for copies in the original message. The information contained in this email is private and confidential and If you are not an intended recipient you are hereby notified that copying, forwarding or other dissemination or distribution of this communication by any means is prohibited. > On, 1:53 PM, " mactug-bounces at on behalf of m3griffi" wrote: If you are not specifically authorized to receive this email and if you believe that you received it in error please notify the original sender immediately. > Since we were talking about replacing photoshop, I remembered this. > MacTUG at : If you have already installed GIMPshop, stop reading right now and run a full anti-virus and malware scan of your computer. ![]() “My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the GIMP accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. In a question and answer post on the social sharing site Metafilter in 2010, Moschella gave a quick overview of what went wrong: Partly because of his tech world credentials, and partly because it was an idea whose time had come, GIMPshop went as viral as anything could in those days, and began to build a serious following.īut almost immediately, things began to go sideways. ![]()
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