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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Kuiper7986 on February 27, 2004, 04:23:06 am

Title: Good paint program
Post by: Kuiper7986 on February 27, 2004, 04:23:06 am: Do you want to make your own sig?
Are you too cheap to buy Adobe Photshop?

Check this paint program out its also got freeware and shareware versions.
http://ultimatepaint.j-t-l.com/
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Post by: acraig on February 27, 2004, 04:24:57 am: You can also get The Gimp for windows. It has a whole mess of different scripts that let you do logos in a bunch of different textures.
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Post by: Axsyrus on February 27, 2004, 04:28:08 am: Freeware AND shareware? that freeware version is pretty limited then I guess..

If you really want a good, free image editing program, Use The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ :)

EDIT: bah, acraig beat me :P
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Post by: Kuiper7986 on February 27, 2004, 04:39:47 am: dOh! The Gimp!
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Post by: Monketh on February 27, 2004, 07:49:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by acraig
You can also get The Gimp for windows. It has a whole mess of different scripts that let you do logos in a bunch of different textures.

Bah! That\'s my line!

I have tried ultimate paint in the past.
It isn\'t that bad if all you have is mspaint, but, obviously, teh GIMP is better.
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Post by: DepthBlade on February 27, 2004, 11:03:01 pm: I am having such a hard time just resizing to a banner size i know the size but just aint working out

(not the gimp program the other)
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Post by: hook on February 28, 2004, 08:20:53 am: gimp!!!

...and for all you windows users, who usually can\'t really get the latest gimp:
the 2.0 candidate has also a windows port somewhere ...don\'t ask me where, i just heard that it does ...i\'m pretty happy with my 2.0 pre on linux :]
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Post by: Wedge on February 28, 2004, 10:01:08 am: Mmmm, I\'m partial to Paintshop Pro... of course I\'ve been using it for somethin\' like 5 years now. It ain\'t free, but it\'s got like 90% of the functionality of Photoshop and costs 90% less. It\'s a $100 or so retail, but not that hard to find on sale for more like $30. Great tool for working with game graphics... an you can pry do sigs with it too.

http://www.jasc.com
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Post by: DepthBlade on February 28, 2004, 08:19:56 pm: Wish I had final cut pro then I could make some sweet flash sigs from my matricies video i created :)
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Post by: Icefalcon on February 28, 2004, 08:37:23 pm: I downloaded the trial version of Paintshop Pro 8, and I really miss it now that my time ran out... Im downloading Gimp now, hopefully I can do some stuff on it...
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Post by: Levski on February 28, 2004, 11:37:35 pm: Gimp all the way :)
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Post by: Axsyrus on March 19, 2004, 05:31:49 pm: ok, since all the gimp fanatics seem to be here.. I just downloaded it, how do I make basic shapes like straight lines/circles/ovals/rectangles etc. ?(

I\'ve always used photoshop before, it had a tool for those.. hell, even mspaint has it :P I can\'t find it in the gimp though ;(

EDIT: ok, found it :)

to make an oval/circle/rectangle make a selection of that shape and then stroke it(right click - edit - stroke).

and to make a straight line, use the pencil tool, click once inside the screen where you want the line to start, press shift and click somewhere else to make to line end. (thanks to lynx for this :) )
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Post by: Monketh on March 19, 2004, 07:36:36 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Axsyrus
ok, since all the gimp fanatics seem to be here..

*nods* All hail the GIMP!
It\'s a little confusing at first, but you get the hang of it.
If ya have any other Q\'s, us gimp fanatics would be happy to help. :)
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Post by: Icefalcon on March 19, 2004, 11:42:50 pm: Right it is a little confusing, and I get really mad at it sometimes, but eh...its free. PaintShop Pro 8 is so much better though...
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Post by: Axsyrus on March 20, 2004, 12:24:55 am: I\'m starting to like the gimp now :)

one thing that bothers me though, it uses 5 seperate windows, isn\'t there a way to dock all of these to the main one and just get a normal layout like in photoshop or paint shop pro? it wouldn\'t be such a problem in linux, but it is pretty annoying having to maximize 5 seperate windows everytime I want to do something else.
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Post by: Icefalcon on March 20, 2004, 12:35:44 am: No, thats one of the reasons I dont like it...
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Post by: Grakrim on March 20, 2004, 01:07:39 am: That\'s the big problem with The Gimp, its almost unusable at a resolution less than 1280x1024 due to those huge menus. You could just close the less immediatly useful windows and learn to use the keyboard to key them back up (Shift+Ctrl+B for the Brushes, for example; if its the same on Windows).

Anyway, you should see me using The Gimp on my iPAQ\'s 160x320 screen... Talk about cramped, yet, strangly, it just feels so right...
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Post by: tallimar on March 28, 2004, 09:20:36 am: PSP 8, my best graphics editing friend. :P