Free Drawing Software

[khalilov 0]

I am gona add some custom pics to my game, i was wondering if anyone could tell me where i can download a free program that has:

Setting height and width by entering their sizes in pixels

Gif animation or multiple frame animation

Layers are possible

Exporting is 100% quality and no signs of program are left on pic

Choosing a custom color

Any extra drawing tools would be nice=)

I was thinking photoshop, but i thought its more for editing pics than creating them and the pics i want to make aren't that detailed, i might use photoshop is i can't find any better alternative. Edited December 11, 2008 by khalilov (see edit history)

[darasen 0]

I am gona add some custom pics to my game, i was wondering if anyone could tell me where i can download a free program that has:

Setting height and width by entering their sizes in pixels

Gif animation or multiple frame animation

Layers are possible

Exporting is 100% quality and no signs of program are left on pic

Choosing a custom color

Any extra drawing tools would be nice=)

I was thinking photoshop, but i thought its more for editing pics than creating them and the pics i want to make aren't that detailed, i might use photoshop is i can't find any better alternative.

Photoshop not for creating images? pleae do not tell THIS GUY. In all seriousness Photoshop is a very (very ^10 ) capable tool for creating images from nothing. The link is to an Illustrator for Marvel Comics and all of the colour pieces are created entirely in Photoshop. I just felt I had to point that out.

[khalilov 0]

ROFL my bad:P, i dunno i still don't know alot of photoshop. I always thought photoshop is importing a pic or two and playing/merging them. Photoshop it is then

[toby 0]

Or GimpShop. I only got it yesterday and I already love it. Gimp's basic stuff, and price, and Photoshop's layout and plugins.

[levimage 0]

So have you created any graphics for your game yet?

When you are talking animation would that be like for characters, world, or map? I'm just asking.

So would you be doing your original work or modifying existing work?

 

You should use the free program GIMP. I believe there is version 2.7 out now. Check out https://www.gimp.org/ for a link to their download section.

 

You could also search that site called "DeviantArt.com" for graphics, ideas, and such about video game graphics, or to just meet other artists. You can also try to search Deviant Art for GIMP brushes, templates, and other resources. I'm sure

there are a good amount of GIMP users at DeviantArt who might offer more graphics help than here.

 

 

I hope this helps you in the right direction.

 

Levimage

Edited December 12, 2008 by levimage (see edit history)

[Quatrux 4]

Yeah, I agree if you want the software to be free, try using Gimp and learn to create images with it, it has lots of tutorials.. Gimpshop is good for people who are moving from Photoshop, but as I know the best latest versions are available for Gimp and only later the guy who created Gimpshop updates it, even though I might be wrong, did not use it for quite some time.. Also, Linux version of Gimp is much more latest than on Windows, I believe for the same reason, until somebody creates a binary working file..But I guess, if you're into graphics, you can use a little bit older version, nothing really changes to much

[Animator 0]

Yuk - potential for yet another Photoshop vs Gimp thread... full of Photoshop users who hate Gimp and Gimp users who hate Photoshop.

 

I'm a Gimp user myself, because it's Open Source (with all those advantages) and because it's the one I've spent most time on so am more intuitively comfortable with.

 

Featurewise, from a professional level, Photohop would win hands down. There are certain things that Gimp should have been doing for a long time already but the development is too slow off the mark. (e.g. folders for layers, proper CYMK colour handling in printer friendly manner, better basic brush options such as rotational, true scaling with pressure wacom as default etc etc etc). That said, most Photoshop users don't actually use many of these professional level features to any real respect, and they would then, quite frankly, be just as well off, if not better off, had they used Gimp.

Edited December 13, 2008 by Lancer (see edit history)

[Quatrux 4]

I don't hate Photoshop though, I think it is marvelous, but if you don't need anything special why waste lots of money when you can use Gimp which is free/open source and be happy.

[khalilov 0]

I don't hate Photoshop though, I think it is marvelous, but if you don't need anything special why waste lots of money when you can use Gimp which is free/open source and be happy.

One of the ups of living in a 3rd world country is that i can get photoshop along with like 50programs for 1$ , so i'll get photoshop and download GIMP and use them both. Both can make pics with transparent backgrounds right?

[Quatrux 4]

One of the ups of living in a 3rd world country is that i can get photoshop along with like 50programs for 1$ , so i'll get photoshop and download GIMP and use them both. Both can make pics with transparent backgrounds right?

How can you get it for 1$? You mean like buying it from somebody.. Well, when I used to be younger, I tried using software with those key generators and etc. to try them out and learn, this was also for the lack of money to buy it, but now when I got older, I understand that it's better to pay for a good software if you're using it and especially if you're using it and get income from it!

But as I said, practically there is a free version of most of the software for personal usage. ;]

But for example, software for Hospitals, cost lots of money! Software for Universities, for say physics experiments on computers, also costs lots of money and I doubt you'll find a keygen for them on a torrent site, in some way I agree that torrents are not so bad, you download something, you use it, you like it, maybe someday you'll buy it!

[Animator 0]

One of the ups of living in a 3rd world country is that i can get photoshop along with like 50programs for 1$ , so i'll get photoshop and download GIMP and use them both. Both can make pics with transparent backgrounds right?

Smart guy.

 

Your Photoshop isn't legal. It's pirated.

You are the reason Adobe announced they're not making Linux compatible (native) version of Photoshop... ever*.

Because of smart players like you, Photoshop is "justified" for being as expensive as it is for everyone else who wants a legitimate copy.

I personally know of people who have ethics and refuse to pirate software "because everyone else is doing it". They are finding it really hard to get their first jobs the right way using alternative softwares (e.g. trying to get by on Open Source such as Gimp, whereas the vacancies demand the "insdustry standard" tools.) They are good, and deserve the jobs... it's not fair. My point is, it's not just the big companies you're hurting when you buy obviously copied stuff.

For that matter, when everyone out there is pirating Photoshop, smaller players like Gimp are the losers. Their product should be getting known, but it isn't and they remain outside of accepted "industry standard" as a result.

It's against Xisto TOS to bring up discussions encouraging piracy.

 

Your other question: Yes, either package is more than capable of making images with transparent background. Gimp can save just as transparent GIF, whereas Photoshop (depending on version) sometimes hides GIF export under web tools.

 

* I wish I could find the article where I read this. I had a tutor discouraging our class from using Linux stating that "Adobe have vowed never to make a Linux Photoshop" as the justification for not using Open Source Operating Systems. On investigating at the time I found such an announcement where fear of Open Source users pirating the product because they "don't like spending" was literally the excuse used by the Adobe spokesperson.

[yordan 10]

Sorry folks. I close this topic because it's going widely off-tracks.
Please read the forum rules again, see here : http://forums.xisto.com/topic/77393-welcome-to-xisto-open-discussion-free-web-hosting/
You can talk about free sofware, you may compare them to commercial software.
You can use commercial software which have a trial version in order to train yourself in order to see the difference with the free software, anything else is not accepted here.