nucos

Join Date 09/2002

What {imaging} software do you use?

I'm curious. What imaging software do you use to make your skins? With my first skin (that I can't upload because IE keeps giving me 404s and I don't trust Mozilla because it gave me ASCII output when I tried to download earlier) I used MSPaint, because it's all I've got. So what do you use and (this is pretty much the real question) can I get it free?

Yeah I've looked at Tucows and Download.com but there's just too much stuff and I have no idea what's good and what's not. Plus I'm on a 56k connection so I can't just go download everything and dele what isn't good

-nucOS

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WOM

Join Date 01/2002

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You can make any paint program work. Some are free(gimp) while others cost.($80-$600+). Go with what you know or can afford. Crazy browser is good and free. Don't use it anymore since I have Skinbrowser.

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elvee

Join Date 03/2001

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Let's see if you are looking for a free one, try The Gimp http://www.gimp.org/
It has bit of a learning curve though.

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Eh...learning curve...don't care about that. Love software with a learning curve. If it doesn't have one then it may not be worth it. Take paint and my skin that I guess uploaded after all...or, should I say, the skin I just deleted?

-nucOS

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WOM

Join Date 01/2002

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Your the one that had Captain Island?

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Yes

But the person who commented (slipped my mind...) was completely right. It was a rather dumb thing to upload and a waste of the two people's time who downloaded it, as well as the (

) 30 mins I spent on it. Right now I am DLing GIMP and I'm going to work on a real skin. Perhaps a Psudo OS, since I've always wanted to create an OS but...wow...it's hard.
However, you can see my feeble attempts at a command shell here: http://nucos.sourceforge.net
-nucOS

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WOM

Join Date 01/2002

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Well, I just wanted to see it not repair it. I'am not a skinner.

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Apparently, neither am I

FTR: For that link, I put tags that said, without spaces and, of course,
-nucOS

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www.tudogs.com has a lot of free software of any type. Paint programs, alternative to microsoft products, you name it.

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Here are all the programs I use. (for images, web design ect...)

Dreamweaver 4
Fireworks 4
Paint Shop Pro 7
Photoshop 7
Photo Impact 7
Bryce 5
3DSMax
WaveLab
InDesign
Illustrator

....lot's of programs eh?

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Corel Draw Essentials
MS Works portfolio
Arcsoft software
PS 2.5LE-old from the web-is where i got it
PD 3.0-burned cd-legally david's copy (my school friend, is disabled-can't talk well (austism?))

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GIMP (at home), Paint Shop Pro (at home), Photoshop Essentials (at home - came with my Wacom graphics tablet), Photoshop (at work), Fireworks (at work), Corel Draw (old version at home, new version at work)

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you can try psp7 free for 30 days, and it comes with its own little flash beginner's guide.

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Koasati

Join Date 07/2001

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PSP rocks my world!

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paxx

Join Date 03/2001

The Gimp is your best choice for a free software. It's got everything Photoshop ($800) got, except CMYK. But unless you're going to do print work you don't need it. But it is just as hard as Photoshop to learn. Take your time nucos, take a few weeks to learn it. Practice and follow some of the many tutorial available on the net (just search for "GIMP tutorial" in Google).

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goodmorphing

Join Date 03/2002

I tried the gimp, and it is hard to use.

I started out with these two...

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html

http://www.ultimatepaint.com/index.html

Image Forge, and Ultimate Paint respectivly. Image forge only costs around $30 if you want to upgrade. I like it for the animations, and because the people are nice. I still use it over PSP sometimes. Ultimate Paint is OK. There used to be one called Satori... It looked real good, but I never could understand it.

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I use photoshop... and boyyyyy I still haven't got the complete hang of it. And therefore haven't come up with any good walls for upload

Onward!!

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CorelDraw 10
CorelPhoto-Paint

Sketch pad and markers for original concept drawings.

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i use fireworks 4 its the older version of fireworks i like it, works great for me kind of expensive but worth it

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I now use GIMP. Love it. It's going to be weeks and weeks before I get any skins up, though. Partially because I'm lazy and creating websites with ScriptFu

-nucOS

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Someone say GIMP?

(Renegade raises his hand)

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