I'm sure this has been said in different places and if so, i cant find them. I'd like to know what everyone uses. Is the most popular one PSP?

I use GIMP and photoshop (or will do soon). If you've used a few, what are the differences, pro's and con's etc?

I use paintshop pro X2 and animation shop, have photoshop as well but rarely use it.

I use photoimpact its the same as PSP but IMO easier to use but that might be because i use it all the time

there are some free good ones now one i know of is PAINT.NET

I use paint shop pro 7 but photoshop is a very good program to use

^thats a nice sig you have^

Can i ask why you use PSP over photoshop?

I prefer paintshop over photoshop cos it's easier to use, more straight forward.

Ah ok. I asked cos i'm getting photoshop and wondered why others on here dont use it as often as the programs. Hopefully i'll be able to get my head round it. I think knowing one program already might give me a head start..

Is there a difference between paintshop and paintshop photo?

nope there the same product just people decribe it in a diff way i sell it lol
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Nah I don't think so it can also be caled paintshop pro they all mean the same thing

Just as well then lol cos i got psp 10 and then was given what i was told was psp 11 but it said on the disc "paintshop pro photo 11 " so it confused me but installed it anyway

its just gone to version 11 thats why they would of give u that
there all the same thing
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Ah ok makes sense now, thanks

no problem im a geek when it comes to it cause its my job boring boring lol

Ugh think i deleted something i shouldnt have this morning cos trying to use gimp now and only the tool bar shows up, nothing else lol

Hmm maybe thats how its sposed to be

I'm just downloading Terragen again. I loved making landscapes with that prog, I'll give it some real time to figure it out this time around.

There we go...60 seconds work.

How did you make that?

wow that's real good

Just by messing with the settings for sky and land.

The fun starts when you add water and use the sqirlz prog.


Terragen (free)

hang on two secs and I'll dig up the sqirlz prog...another freebie (Thank you babylon)

sqirlz

Thats very clever especially getting the sun light coming from behind

I just threw sqirz at it...no real effort just outline and run. But play with the two progs and colours etc.....







Just put the sun height below the horizon for that trick

Wow the only thing is , that the water has distorted the sky

That can happen, it's best to use clouds or rain etc, then the shading gets hidden...hey it's free we aren't gonna get top range progs for nothing are we?

Spose

Did you ever find a "back up" button in Terragen.... cos I didn't



That's the full name, you did well to get 11 free,

the latest is Paintshop pro photo X2 and to be honest I haven't found anything

different from 11 yet, apart from the workspace.

thats wicked !!!!

I didnt realise 11 or X1 was a very recent version I didnt find it free though, it was given to me. But for some reason to be able to install it i had to get a free version and got psp 9

Like I've said, I'm going to do some serious looking at that program. If I find somethinmg worth speaking of, you'll be the first to know.

I was trawling for free animation progs and came across www.cdearth.com. It's supposed to be an animation CD and one or two other freebies too.


I'll get back to you when it arrives and do a report. It might be worth sending off for it, it might be a dog of a prog. I'll keep you informed.

cdearth

I'll be keeping watch to see what you think, I need a better program for animation

I recieved a dispatch e-mail yesterday. should be here in 8 days they say.

The CD Earth has arrived, and it's -wait for it- a promotional thing "This is free, do nothing and we'll send hundreds more at $5.99 a month" There had to be a catch somewhere, but I think we can avoid getting loads of crap I'm sure.

I'll load the CD on later and give it a looksee.

OMG!

I'm going to need a refresher course in quantum physics to get a grips of this.

It's nothing like windows, and it says so in the history of the program. It's been developed "open source" so one can assume some real heavyweight programmers have had a hand in it.

I may well be completely out of my depth.

The whole CD thing is a rip. You can download it free here... http://www.blender.org/

are there not any tutorials for it? I was like that with the animation shop in psp to begin with lol

There are tutorial on that site I've linked to....but it's still major headache time I think.

hmmmm I'll stick with what ive got then I guess if it so hard lol

It's obviously stunning with what it can do, I've just rotated a cube through true 3D...but all the commands and interfaces are just so alien to a windows user.

wow lol when you get used to it your going to have to show us the result

i use photoshop cs9 and picasa.. there is a photoscape program too.. by the way i wanna ask a question. I make my photo black&white but i want keep my lips red.. how can i do this??