Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: An4ximandros on October 05, 2012, 11:52:42 pm
Title: Drawing Software
Post by: An4ximandros on October 05, 2012, 11:52:42 pm
Me being the massive derp I am at Photoshop and GIMP when it comes to not making planets or textures, decided to look around for alternative software for drawing and came across Corel Painter, which costs way too much for me (350$!), a search for software like it led me to this free alternative: MyPaint (http://mypaint.intilinux.com/)
Besides being awesome for the price of nothing, it comes with basilions of brushes that mimic things from pencils to paintbrushes and it works well even with a mouse, check it out!
I would post some work here but I should be asleep right now and can barely think what I am typing here. :\
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: pecenipicek on October 06, 2012, 01:27:35 am
couldnt be arsed to RTFM for either GIMP or Photoshop in regards to brushes, eh? Try it, i promise it wont bite you too bad.
Spoiler:
RTFM = Read The ****in Manual, for the clueless ones amongst us.
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: Thaeris on October 06, 2012, 10:14:40 am
My digital art set includes GIMP and Inkscape, but this looks like this might be a nice program to have. I may have to try it at some point.
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: headdie on October 06, 2012, 10:23:33 am
well The win32 version loads a damn sight faster than gimp. Saves in ORA, PNG and JPEG Seems to support layers with some nice feature
Ticks enough of the basic boxes for me to give a serious go
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 06, 2012, 10:27:08 am
Used it on and off for a while already. It's really very good :yes:
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: sigtau on October 06, 2012, 12:49:54 pm
All more of a reason for me to cave and go buy that Wacom...
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: An4ximandros on October 06, 2012, 01:48:17 pm
Couldn't be arsed to RTFM for either GIMP or Photoshop in regards to brushes, eh?
I actually spent months trying to hone my skills for both, it just felt very awk, this one is for drawing rather than making "digital pictures" like Photo-shop or GNU Image Manipulation Program, I still keep using them for things like textures, which they excel at.
And yes they did bite me rather badly at drawing!
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: Retsof on October 08, 2012, 09:28:01 pm
I've played around a bit. Don't think I'll be able to do much until I get around to getting a tablet.
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: LHN91 on October 08, 2012, 09:37:20 pm
Might resurrect my old HP convertible tablet one more time to play around with this. Poor thing overheats constantly, has no working trackpad and a couple non-functioning keys, and is otherwise damn near completely falling apart, but I can still baby it into running as a tablet.
Title: Re: Drawing Software
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 09, 2012, 07:29:41 am
You won't go far wrong with a little wacom bamboo. They're reasonably priced and good at what they do :) . . . . Except my pc is dead :(