I need a good art program for ubuntu

[Mr_J_]

I am here asking you nice people to post the name and tutorials of a program for linux that allows me to do similar work to that of flash and/or photoshop.

An art program to keep me entertained...
I looked at InkScape and towards GIMP. They look good, and I was wondering others that I should look at, and also if one was more advanced or better for art than the other.

Just a general help on which I should learn first and where to learn about it.

[Lord Illidan]

It all depends if you want to learn vector art - Inkscape or raster art - GIMP

[stuporglue]

Look at Blender if you want to do 3d modeling and animation.

[l.tambiah]

You have two main options, GIMP and Inkscape. Where Gimp is better for photo editing and effects whilst inkscape is a vector tool suit. I was a Windows user who used photoshop and illustrator, i haven't really found any problems in using the alternatives. Most users dont use the full capacity of programs like photoshop anyway!

You just have to be prepared to change your habits a little bit, if you ask me its better than paying an extrodinate amount for commercial software.

However soon a company called Xara are releasing their package under the GPL i believe, and i tell you what Xara looks impressive. Once this is released there wont be no looking back.

Check it out here (http://www.xara.com/)

Also i must warn you, the flash plugin by Macromedia for Linux is very buggy, it eats your processor away when ever flash is displayed. Obviously Macromedia havent put a lot of effort into testing the plugin on Linux or cant be bothered to resolve the problems, this is why open source is important, because if it was open source then some propeller head could fix it. But we have to wait for Macromedia to do that as the code is closed sourced.

[DirtDawg]

GIMP and Inkscape are two entirely different things.

If you're interested in illustration, Inkscape may be what you want to learn. If you've never used bezier curves before, they'll take some practice. This is known as vector art. I personally enjoy making vector art.

If you're interested in photo-manipulation or photo-realistic art, use GIMP (pixel-based art is sometimes referred to as "rastorized").

Honestly, I rarely ever use one or the other exclusively, so whichever one you start with will be benificial. If I just went over material that's obvious to you, sorry in advance. I also don't know of any good tutorials, though I can tell you the library is never, ever a bad place to at least check.

Have fun.

EDIT: Blender is totally awsome as well, though I would recommend getting at least somewhat familiar with 2D art before adding that extra plane.

[meborc]

xara? comes to linux? :D ... oh happy day... i remember i tried xara 5 years ago... i dont remember the name of the exact program... it has probably changed the name since... but it was really good... i liked it a lot... although xara is/was more vector than raster... or has it changed? ... i guess i will not pay for it as i am opensource/freeware fanatic, but the fact that a linux version is coming out just brought back so many memories ...

[gnottage]

Xara are hoping to go Open Source with a port to Linux of thier Xtreme application, called Xara LX (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/). Looks like it's not ready yet to be released. I'm interested when it's ready to run on Ubuntu.

[nijinsky]

I am here asking you nice people to post the name and tutorials of a program for linux that allows me to do similar work to that of flash and/or photoshop.

An art program to keep me entertained...
I looked at InkScape and towards GIMP. They look good, and I was wondering others that I should look at, and also if one was more advanced or better for art than the other.

Just a general help on which I should learn first and where to learn about it.

Pixel32 (like photoshop and only $32 and xara Extreme for linux soon and free.

Cheers
Bob; sunny Scotland

[jaboua]

Never tried it, but gimpshop is supposed to be a photoshop-like version of gimp...

Personally, I use gimp the most, but I would certainly like some inkscape skills as well, I've seen many lovely wallpapers made in inkscape...

[flomar]

Hi,

I love vector graphics, therefore i mainly use sodipodi! it's a very good SVG-application. inkscape is a real great program too because of its automatic vectorization of bitmaps. but i don't really like the inferface.

flo

[JanvL]

Use Gimp as Photoshop-alternative
Use Inkscape as Illustrator-alternative
Use Scribus as Pagemaker-alternative

For 3D use Blender

Want to keep it simple?
Try OpenOffice draw.

It all depends on what you already know about imaging.

success,

Jan

[DirtDawg]

Hi,

I love vector graphics, therefore i mainly use sodipodi! it's a very good SVG-application. inkscape is a real great program too because of its automatic vectorization of bitmaps. but i don't really like the inferface.

flo

I've got to try Sodipodi. I simply assumed that because Inkscape was built around Sodipodi it would be more advanced.

[drfalkor]

Other: Photoshop

EDIT: woops, dint see "for ubuntu"- sorry, my bad ..

[tiggs_the_cat]

Hello there,

Like others have already pointed out there are major differences between vector and raster based apps. Also there are many different flavors and feature sets among raster apps themselves for example. Photoshop gives you a wide range of tools for digitally painting and editing, while Painter is mainly focussed on natural art media. As far as I know Photoshop runs through Wine or CrossOverOffice under Linux but Painter does not. ArtRage (1 (http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html) and 2 (http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage2.html)) is a relativley new app by the original makers of Painter that gives you very realistic painting results, and I've heard that it also runs through Wine.
The GIMP has some very nice editing tools, but unfortunately it does not support non-destructive editing and its brush engine is very limited. Pixel32 (http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12) seems to be between Photoshop and the GIMP, it allows for alot of advanced features and non-destructive editing, however the last time I checked it out the brush engine was on par with the GIMP's.

:)

[jsmidt]

I am not the best artist but I like gimp.