switch
Oct 20 2005, 09:04 AM
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i was basically wondering if anyone knew any good graphics editing software for use making sigs, web page graphics, textures for computer games etc.
at the moment i'm using a combination of Microsoft Photo Editor, Paint, IrfanView, ImageXYZ (a text watermarking tool) Winamp's Advanced Visualization Studio and Excessive Use of the Print Screen Key 
anyone know of any software that could suit my needs? much appreciated.
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tajimd
Oct 20 2005, 09:29 AM
Why are you not trying Photoshop or Imeageready. You can even check fireworks. All of them are great
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samma
Oct 20 2005, 09:56 AM
photoshop would be my suggestion... if you cant afford it, i would go for fireworks or paint shop pro... GIMP is free but the features arn't as good as photoshop and etc.
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cse-icons
Oct 20 2005, 11:02 AM
yeah Photoshop would be the best but it is not free and as far as I know even fireworks or paint shop pro are also not free. GIMP is the best u can get free and use it in the combination u r now and undoubtedly u would get a lot better results. Cheers.
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Spectre
Oct 20 2005, 02:30 PM
Allow to bring one thing to your attention: the title. You know, the first thing you see before reading a post? Anyone Know Any Good Legal Free Graphics Software?, well Photoshop costs ~$800! To me, this suggests the poster is looking for good, legally free graphics-related programs. So you might consider ceasing to post recommendations of Photoshop and the like. Anyway, GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is, as has been mentioned, a reasonably good free imaging application. The problem is that decent programs of this sort usually take a lot of time and money to develop, so there isn't many floating around that the developers are willing to part with without a fee. There are certainly alternatives to Photoshop, but not many. There are quite a few free WYSIWYG HTML editors on the web. I use Dreamweaver myself, which obviously isn't free, so I wouldn't know of any to personally recommend, but I have heard good things about the open source editor NVU.
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Becca
Oct 20 2005, 04:38 PM
use SERIF software. It's awesome and I think it's free. There's serif draw which is like filtered down drawing program. And theres paint and other cool things (3d etc..) It's only the older versions though. But it's still fairly useful. QUOTE http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
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dodgerblue
Oct 20 2005, 06:42 PM
GIMP isn't as good as Photoshop? Nonsense. It isn't n00b-friendly, if that's what you mean. *sniffs in disdain*  There are ALOT of features that take some discovering. It is an amazing graphics tool. I couldn't live without it. I make ALL my work with GIMP. Yeah, because why pay $1000 for what you can get free? All I have to say is: Go download it now.
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fffanatics
Oct 20 2005, 07:03 PM
Woo who ever said GIMP was not that good has never really used it. Yes, if you are used to photoshop it might seem a tad bit strange and hard to use but once u start using it and get used to the way it does things, it is as good as Photoshop. Plus, since it is free many people use it and there are great tutorials online just search google. For a free image software, use GIMP since who actually can afford Adobe CS 2?
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Lyon2
Oct 20 2005, 07:11 PM
Photoshop and paint-shop-pro are the best, and between the two, paint-shop-pro is by far the best, even though tons of people say the other way. If you don't want to pay, you have the "photoshop" of the open source, named "GIMP". Gimp is almost as good as photoshop, so, i'll recommend it if you don't want to pay.
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Becca
Oct 20 2005, 07:17 PM
Why an earth is everyone either suggesting photoshop or paint shop pro...or even mentioning it? The dude already said it was expensive.. And like i said serif is good. I used the draw one as it came in a free cd from a computer mag and found it was really useful..a tiny bit like corel draw...obviously not as good but good enough. Oh and MS Paint can be good for some things as well. I use it A LOT and there might be some tutorials out there that most people didn't know how to before.. It still amazes me.but i guess it is a bit too basic. All terragen is FREE and good for creating realistic, cool landscapes that CAN be used a texture. It's really good you should try it out. I think it's called terragen anyways.
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Moolkye
May 10 2006, 12:52 AM
Well I see alot of people mentioning The GIMP, but what about Vector graphics programs like Inkscape. If you want a good list of what freeware graphic apps are available goto http://www.freewarefiles.comThey do keep on top of stuff
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virus_lx
Apr 22 2006, 12:35 PM
The best free open source graphical editor is The GIMP. This is translate on the many languages... DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.gimp.org/The free windows graphical editor is PAint.net. Very cool DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
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BrknDreamer
Mar 4 2006, 03:27 PM
QUOTE(Becca @ Oct 20 2005, 02:17 PM) 
Why an earth is everyone either suggesting photoshop or paint shop pro...or even mentioning it? The dude already said it was expensive..
And like i said serif is good. I used the draw one as it came in a free cd from a computer mag and found it was really useful..a tiny bit like corel draw...obviously not as good but good enough. Oh and MS Paint can be good for some things as well. I use it A LOT and there might be some tutorials out there that most people didn't know how to before.. It still amazes me.but i guess it is a bit too basic.
All terragen is FREE and good for creating realistic, cool landscapes that CAN be used a texture. It's really good you should try it out. I think it's called terragen anyways.
OK, just a thought here- since everyone keeps suggessting PS & stuff, and we need not to spend any $$ here... What about using the trial version for a bit? Maybe while you save up? Almost every program for sale offers a trial version. Not a good fix for the long haul, unless maybe you could reinstall or something, that might be against the rules, Im not sure about all that, and of course some features may not be available - but for a free prog, GIMP is definitely the best available, also if you need a free 3d prog for anything you might want to check out blend... its also open source like gimp
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shadowdemon
Dec 2 2005, 11:01 AM
photoshop has a 30 day free trial so if you c an get the most use out of it in the month then get it
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haxored
Dec 2 2005, 10:22 AM
GIMP is the best free Photoshop like editor in the world. If you think its no good, then you are no good. Its not just user friendly but trust me.. almost every cool graphics in Linux Desktops you see, including great icons with alpha channels are done with GIMP. So use and discover before you say its no good. With GIMP Plugins it can work like photoshop and to sum it all, best things are free!
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