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#1 2011-06-22 17:17:22

awesomestickdude
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What's the best drawing program?

I've been thinking about buying photoshop but it looks like it's mostly used for editing photo's and not really drawing. What do people use to draw pictures from scratch? (No pun intended  tongue )

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#2 2011-06-22 17:18:08

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

Gimp


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#3 2011-06-22 17:18:13

higejolly
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Re: What's the best drawing program?

Mac: Pinta
Windows/Ubuntu: Gimp


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#4 2011-06-22 17:20:38

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

waveOSBeta wrote:

Gimp

hmm  I have that but i don't really see that much you can do with it. Am i missing something here?

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#5 2011-06-22 17:22:40

kimmy123
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Re: What's the best drawing program?

You can make cool pictures with the DA muro  big_smile
http://www.deviantart.com/muro

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#6 2011-06-22 17:26:02

Berry122
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Re: What's the best drawing program?

Microsoft Paint?  tongue


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#7 2011-06-22 17:27:47

Will64
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Re: What's the best drawing program?

Yea- photoshop is an epic editing program- but you cn't draw anything... do you know how long it took me to learn how to make a circle!?!


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#8 2011-06-22 17:36:20

SeptimusHeap
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Re: What's the best drawing program?

Paint.net is like free photoshop.

Go to getpaint.net


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#9 2011-06-22 17:41:33

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

awesomestickdude wrote:

waveOSBeta wrote:

Gimp

hmm  I have that but i don't really see that much you can do with it. Am i missing something here?

you're missing alot


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#10 2011-06-22 18:08:22

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

SeptimusHeap wrote:

Paint.net is like free photoshop.

Go to getpaint.net

Yesh. Best, and most simplest way into advanced digital imaging. And great for spriting.

And even better because of plugins. Got 100+ and counting.


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#11 2011-06-22 20:35:13

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

awesomestickdude wrote:

waveOSBeta wrote:

Gimp

hmm  I have that but i don't really see that much you can do with it. Am i missing something here?

Yes, you are missing a drawing tablet. You can't get very good DRAWINGS without it. Otherwise, you use pixel art, lines, curves, etc.


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#12 2011-06-22 20:36:28

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

Berry122 wrote:

Microsoft Paint?  tongue

No!!!

Paint.NET - Easy to use with many features
Gimp - Harder to use but has pretty much all the features you'll ever need  big_smile


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#13 2011-06-22 20:39:39

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

Well paint.NET is good for beginners I guess.  I think that Gimp is really bad and hard to use.

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#14 2011-06-22 20:42:54

wmays
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Re: What's the best drawing program?

maxskywalker wrote:

Well paint.NET is good for beginners I guess.  I think that Gimp is really bad and hard to use.

If you used GIMP, you would not think it is hard.


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#15 2011-06-22 20:43:30

awesomestickdude
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Re: What's the best drawing program?

Thanks guys I'll try them all.

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#16 2011-06-22 20:44:21

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

wmays wrote:

awesomestickdude wrote:

waveOSBeta wrote:

Gimp

hmm  I have that but i don't really see that much you can do with it. Am i missing something here?

Yes, you are missing a drawing tablet. You can't get very good DRAWINGS without it. Otherwise, you use pixel art, lines, curves, etc.

If you scan your art then use paths for line art its as easy as oatmeal cookies.


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#17 2011-06-22 20:44:55

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Re: What's the best drawing program?

The Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is my favorite.


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