MS paint not good enough

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LordRahl
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MS paint not good enough

#1 Post by LordRahl » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:50 am

I need a help finding a good art program for making graphics for my AGS game. If any one can recommend a good program fore 2D work pleas let me know.
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#2 Post by Fizzii » Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:58 am

The GIMP is good, once you get the hang of it... and it's free
http://www.gimp.org/

If you want to pay for a paint program though, there's Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Corel Photo-paint, etc. But Gimp can do the same sort of things.
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#3 Post by ThreeHeadedMonkey » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:47 pm

I once started an AGS game with MS Paint graphics... I looked a lot like South Park...  :rollin
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#4 Post by Music Head » Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:01 am

You can grab version 7 of paintshop pro for free if you google it. It's pretty much as good as the newer ones
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#5 Post by moonlit » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:05 am

I second fizzi in that the gimp is pretty good, free and open software.

It is also easy to write an export plugin. I fyou write your own engine this might come in handy. I wrote one for mine that allows me to save from the gimp and read it in my program which shows it on the screen including layer alpha transparency (and whatever I might come up with).

Regards, Ron AF Greve
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#6 Post by Relight » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:41 pm

Made in MS Paint while I was bored at work yesterday. It was a quick job, but I've seen some people do amazing stuff using only MS Paint. It's not just the tools you have that count.

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#7 Post by Klytos » Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:41 am

Very AGI. I love it. Good work.
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#8 Post by Khaveen » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:27 am

Relight wrote:Made in MS Paint while I was bored at work yesterday. It was a quick job, but I've seen some people do amazing stuff using only MS Paint. It's not just the tools you have that count.

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WOW, reminds me of QFG1EGA ending sequence. Thumbs up.
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#9 Post by koko992001 » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:13 pm

That's just awesome!  Wow!  *is speechless*
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#10 Post by ThreeHeadedMonkey » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:36 pm

Very nice indeed.
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#11 Post by RealRelight » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:53 pm

Thanks for the positive response guys! I have to fix the sky. My dummy terminal at work is only dithered 256 color, so I couldn't use other colours besides the defaults.
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#12 Post by Khaveen » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:48 am

I wonder if Relight is another superb VGA artist who doesn't show off his talents by making a fan_gaym?
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