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Background Programes

#1 Post by Music Head » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:30 am

Can you guys give me alink to download a background drawing program. I was gonna use paint but i need 256colours.

PS. What program did AGDI use to draw their bgs, charectors, ect

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#2 Post by Jafar » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:35 am

I heard that the program....what was it called again? I think it was called Paintshop Pro. I heard that works well.

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#4 Post by Music Head » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:53 am

Paint Shop Pro. Geez, i have it and find it extremelly hard to use. Is it real y what AGDI used.

Downloading GIMP now

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#5 Post by JWar » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:08 am

I've been in your shoes. If you don't have a lot of experience with graphical programmes, they feel very hard. Try and find a tutorial online and run through it. You'll find that the difficulty lies mostly in the way of mentally approaching the problems and this is usually clarified in the tutorials.

Until you do that, the gimp, paintshop pro, adobe photoshop, they'll all feel difficult.

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#6 Post by Gronagor » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:20 am

JayWar's right. :) If you want to draw, you'll have to learn them. :) If possible, learn Gimp. Not because it is better, simply because I find it difficult going back to Gimp after working with Photoshop for this long.

You'll save yourself lots of money....

AGDI used Photoshop and PaintShopPro.

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#7 Post by Music Head » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:21 am

ok, thanks for your help Jaywar. I tried to download gimp before but couldn't get aroun their site too easily

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#8 Post by Gronagor » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:30 am

Not that difficult. Just go to Gimp for Windows at the bottom.

It takes you to this link: http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html

Edit: Oh. You'll have to download both Gimp 2.05 and GTK+ 2 for Windows for it to work. You'll see them both on that page.

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#9 Post by Blackthorne519 » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:24 pm

I use MsPaint, PaintShopPro, TheGimp and ArcSoft PhotoStudio for all the IA work.

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#10 Post by Alias » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:21 pm

PhotoPlus is free & a good program. ;)

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