What Do YOU Use To Make Your Art?

AA app companyAA app company Member Posts: 73
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Please comment. Looking for a free program to use to make mine and was just wondering

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  • stackpoolestackpoole Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaMember, PRO Posts: 473

    Best free program in my experience is GIMP. Although I use photoshop I found GIMP the easiest and best alternative. Either way, whatever the program, it will take time to learn them. Best of luck

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  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772

    I use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop mostly, neither of which are free I'm afraid. But Inkscape and GIMP are two comparable free products.

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  • 3DMA3DMA Member, PRO Posts: 162

    I can recommend you have a look at Adobes Creative Cloud. It will allow you to use the professional tools for Graphic Designer buy paying a monthly "membership" So you don´t have to pay big money to use Photoshop & CO.

    It´s worth a look ;-)

  • WbokoWboko Tennessee, USAMember, PRO Posts: 621

    @Wboko said:
    Is it just me or in AA app company image always jacking with the titles of his comments?

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  • AA app companyAA app company Member Posts: 73

    ??? @Wboko‌ no idea what you mean?

  • WbokoWboko Tennessee, USAMember, PRO Posts: 621

    @AA app company said:
    ??? Wboko‌ no idea what you mean?

    I am not sure what is up with your logo, but the two images show what it looks like in both Chrome and Firefox.... Look at the images. It just makes it really hard to read your post sometimes... I am just not sure if I am the only one that sees it that way, but no one other icons are jacked...


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  • JapsterJapster Member Posts: 672

    I've been having pretty good results with Paint.NET for the superb price of FREE - not big on fancy features compared to CS, but great on basic functionality, with some cool features...

    Also worth downloading the awesome "Grim Colour Reaper" plugin and dropping it into your Paint.NET install - really, really good plugin that helps get great quality PNG's from JPG's etc, without a lot of work - literally a couple of sliders with preview, and a button click...

    Finally (and this has also been mentioned before, I'm sure) - as GS project size is of paramount importance - just google "TinyPNG" - an unbelievably awesome online PNG compressor that doesn't screw up transparency, unlike some... - I typically achieve between 40%-80% compression ratios on images that I run through this excellent little converter, and there's NO noticeable difference in quality etc. May work for you, but I had lots of 20kb PNG images go down to 4kb, 7kb down to 1.7kb, etc... - it all helps!

    Den.

  • JapsterJapster Member Posts: 672

    Oh, and it's also layer-based (which is great), but still simpler to use than the big boys...

    Also very simple to save out GS-compatible files by saving @ the right DPI etc...

  • AA app companyAA app company Member Posts: 73

    I have paint.net @Japster‌

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