What art programs do you use?

[xequence]

Me, I use Photoshop 7 for everything except text. I hate the text tool in photoshop. I use paint shop pro 7 for that ;)

[MetalMusicAddict]

Oh come on man. :) You know the answers to this.

Ill humor. ;)

I recently uninstalled my copy of PS CS2 (bought and paid for) to make myself go to The GIMP. I just got my new Dell 24" WS LCD. The GIMP is SICK wit it and my Wacom pad.

Im also learning Inkscape. Ill dive into Blender later this year.

[xequence]

I know most people in linux use the gimp and inkscape.

I just wanted to know if anyone else used more then one program on one image like I did =P And I wanted an excuse to post that picture down there and to find out who got what programs working in wine.

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/7233/linuxredandblack25qj.th.png (http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=linuxredandblack25qj.png)

1337 desktop background (looks horribly horrible when resized down, you gotta see the full 1024*768 greatness of it)

[Artificial Intelligence]

I'm Uses gimp, pixel32 and photoshop 7.

[xmastree]

Me, I use Photoshop 7 for everything except text.Depending what kind of text you want, have you looked at Gimp's logo scripts?
Xtns>Script-fu>Logos from the main gimp window.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1451&original=1

[xequence]

Depending what kind of text you want, have you looked at Gimp's logo scripts?
Xtns>Script-fu>Logos from the main gimp window.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1451&original=1

Basically, its putting text over an existing picture I just made. The photoshop text thingy is very very bad in my opinion.

[xmastree]

Basically, its putting text over an existing picture I just made.Well the gimp option I mentioned creates a new image, but it's easy to copy and paste the result on to your image, once you get the right font size.
Play with it, you never know, you might even like it.

Edit:- Here's one I made earlier:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=97018&page=2
Look at post #14 for a nice text effect.

[PatrickMay16]

I use the Gimp, KolourPaint, and MS Paint running in wine.

[Mr_Grieves]

Gimp all the way!!

and MS Paint running in wine.
Hahahahaha!!! :D

[briancurtin]

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/7233/linuxredandblack25qj.th.png (http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=linuxredandblack25qj.png)

1337 desktop background (looks horribly horrible when resized down, you gotta see the full 1024*768 greatness of it)
that is painful

[DirtDawg]

I use GIMP, Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, Inkscape, Blender3D, and just a wee bit of Flash 5.

[BWF89]

At school - Mac OS10:
Adobe Photoshop CS something
Adobe Illustrator CS something

At home - Windows XP:
OpenOffice.org Draw
Microsoft Paint
Adobe Photoshop 7 (Although I never use it)
GNU Image Manipulation Program (never use it either)
Inkscape (uninstalled it because I never used it)

[JimmyJazz]

the GIMP is a pro app. Anything that can be done in photoshop can be done in the GIMP (although maybe not as easily). The only thing it doesn't support is CMYK. I don't know why anyone would use PS its cost almost 1000 dollars.

[drizek]

photoshop is only a couple hundred bucks.

anyway, i dont know if you guys have seen krita, but it is advancing very quickly.

[fuscia]

i use gimp and occassionally mess around with inkscape. most of what i do with gimp is photo editing. i used to have the five finger discount edition of photoshop, but i dumped it in favor of gimp. i like the way gimp is set up better.

[JimmyJazz]

photoshop is only a couple hundred bucks.

anyway, i dont know if you guys have seen krita, but it is advancing very quickly.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00081I76A/qid=1137308676/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-5522650-1356155?v=glance&s=software&n=507846

I'm talking about pro. I don't mess with cheap photo editing

[darkmatter]

I use the GIMP, Inkscape, Blender and Maya.

[kassetra]

I currently use gimp, ps cs2, inkscape, illustrator, freehand, flash, fireworks, pixel32, maya, 3dsmax, renderman and blender.

I've used gimp for years and photoshop since version 1....

gimp is not so bad for web images (png and jpgs....) I use it quite often for items designed to go on a website or for quick design mockups.

but it doesn't have the processing engine capable of doing the fullscale design work that I do; the preprocessing engines are missing; there is no color management; I can't send color separations to my printer from gimp; text tools have very limited rendering engines, etc.

Do I need all of those things? Yes, *I* do for my daily jobs.... so currently, I'm stuck with Photoshop CS2 for those kinds of tasks. Anyone who doesn't need those things, however (most people in the market for a basic graphics editor with some nice extras) - will be more than satisfied with gimp. :)

it's all about the best tool for the job, not about what is "better" :)

[xmastree]

Do I need all of those things? Yes, *I* do for my daily jobs....Come on... Who are you tryin' to kid? You don't need all that just to make a few powerpuff avatars... :razz: :razz: :razz:
;)

Is there a decent blender tutorial out there? First one I tried didn't exist any more, the next one fell at the first fence. 'Press the 'import bitmap' button', but I couldn't see one... :confused:

I'm currently playing with Inkscape, trying to make some logos. Could they make the gradient tool more difficult to use? I don't think so...
linear gradient 11129? wtf? :confused:
Playing with stars, now that's fun. :D

[kassetra]

Come on... Who are you tryin' to kid? You don't need all that just to make a few powerpuff avatars... :razz: :razz: :razz:
;)
Oh man, if that's ALL I had to do in a day.... let me tell YOU!

Is there a decent blender tutorial out there? First one I tried didn't exist any more, the next one fell at the first fence. 'Press the 'import bitmap' button', but I couldn't see one... :confused:
ehhhhh... well... I learned through a couple of odd tutorials I found somewhere back before blender2 I believe... and then I just had to learn/relearn some things as it advanced from there... hmmm... there should be a good tutorial out there somewhere... or else, argh, I'll just add it to my ever-expanding todo list.

I'm currently playing with Inkscape, trying to make some logos. Could they make the gradient tool more difficult to use? I don't think so...
linear gradient 11129? wtf? :confused:
Ok, I LOVE the inkscape gradient tool... I'll take it in a HEARTBEAT over illustrator's gradient-stroke mess (I'm sorry, what do you mean I can't do a gradient on a stroke?! THIS IS the year 2006 is it not?!) .... but freehand has everyone beat with their gradient tool... well... except for illustrator's gradient mesh... that rocks.... but on the whole, I'll make gradients in inkscape, save them and then open the file in illustrator to finish working. heh. And more and more, I love working in svg format ... recently, I had something like 150 svg files I needed to edit (change color X to color Y) .... I opened them all in bluefish and just did a mass replace... save all and voila... fixed... ooooh I loved that.

Playing with stars, now that's fun. :D
the sky... full of stars....

[xmastree]

Ok, I LOVE the inkscape gradient tool... I'll take it in a HEARTBEAT over illustrator's gradient-stroke messWell, I guess it takes some getting used to. I'm more used to seeing the gradient with draggable points below it rather than selecting each one in turn and moving it.

That calligraphy tool is fun, especially with Mass=1, Drag=0 :)

I opened them all in bluefish and just did a mass replace...Now that's something I didn't know. An SVG is a text file! I learn something every day on these forums. Today I've learnt two things :D

[eriqk]

At home:

Gimp
Inkscape
Blender
Irfanview (does anyone know if this will work in WINE?)
WinTOPO (still need to find a good replacement for that one)
Audacity (ya rly)
UltraEdit (what's a good hex editor for Ubuntu?)
Hopefully, XaraX in the near future


At work, Final Cut Pro, PS7, After Effects, Inkscape (Illutrator wasn't included in the package- shame), Blender

Still getting to grips with PD/PDP/PiDiP/Gridflow and the likes.

Groet, Erik

[xequence]

that is painful

Heh, I like it. Just wish there was a bit more black...

[JimmyJazz]

gimp is not so bad for web images (png and jpgs....) I use it quite often for items designed to go on a website or for quick design mockups.

but it doesn't have the processing engine capable of doing the fullscale design work that I do; the preprocessing engines are missing; there is no color management; I can't send color separations to my printer from gimp; text tools have very limited rendering engines, etc.

Do I need all of those things? Yes, *I* do for my daily jobs.... so currently, I'm stuck with Photoshop CS2 for those kinds of tasks. Anyone who doesn't need those things, however (most people in the market for a basic graphics editor with some nice extras) - will be more than satisfied with gimp.

Have you tried Gimp 3.6. It still has color managment issues but the font rendering is much much better and there is massive improvments accross the board.

[Bandit]

GIMP.
Its all I use and all I know now. I used to use Photoflop (photoshop). But GIMPs free and I am more comfortable using GIMP.
I am running GIMP 2.2.10 now..
I want to learn Inkscape, but thats further down the road.
Cheers,
Bandit

BTW if anyone wants the latest GIMP you can grab it from my website...

[kassetra]

Have you tried Gimp 3.6. It still has color managment issues but the font rendering is much much better and there is massive improvments accross the board.

I am using 2.3.6 currently - and yes, it is much better than it was before. It's a much better digital art tool.

I hope that someday I'll be able to open/create a 2400 dpi file in gimp with 5 spot pantone colors and send a 9 index color separation from gimp to my printer - because that's what I do in Photoshop currently... but that would make gimp a professional design house tool - which may not be what it wants to be when it grows up.

Until then, I'm happy using all of my tools for the jobs that their best at. :)

[kassetra]

Now that's something I didn't know. An SVG is a text file! I learn something every day on these forums. Today I've learnt two things :D

I'll let you in on something kinda fun that I do now...

I have a framework built on one of my clients' web clusters - and I've built this prototype image assembler - so that when you click on links on pages, the framework takes svg text that I've put into different buckets (lines, gradients, circles, etc.) and "builds" images by writing an svg file on the fly to display on the page.

Now, granted, you need firefox in order to *see* the images... but in this way, I've been creating sharp-looking dynamic buttons and callouts for "specials" on the web pages.

[Bandit]

I use GIMP a lot so I need it to be stable. I cant wait to try 2.3 out when stable has been released of it.
Cheers,
Bandit

[JimmyJazz]

I am using 2.3.6 currently - and yes, it is much better than it was before. It's a much better digital art tool.

I hope that someday I'll be able to open/create a 2400 dpi file in gimp with 5 spot pantone colors and send a 9 index color separation from gimp to my printer - because that's what I do in Photoshop currently... but that would make gimp a professional design house tool - which may not be what it wants to be when it grows up.

Until then, I'm happy using all of my tools for the jobs that their best at. :)

I'll have to admidt I don't know enough about print design.

[xmastree]

Since we're on the subject, I have a gimp question which I posted (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=101949) earlier but drew no response...

It's about scripts. Now, I'm not a programmer so what I know about these things is based on taking a working one and attempting to adapt it to do what I want. Sometimes it works, but the actual script is usually a mess.

Anyway, there's this script I installed, Shrek Text:

http://img63.exs.cx/img63/3558/shrek.png (http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4705)


(available here (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=4038&d=1133434715)) , which is under the main gimp window. I have a logo design ('borrowed' from the web) which I want to adapt to my own design. The version I have is only 200x200px and I wish to enlarge it. I've traced it in inkscape, but I would like to apply the 3D effect in Shrek Text to it.

I noticed that some of the scripts make themselves available both inthe Gimp window and in the Image window, the latter being applied to an alpha channel.
How can I adapt that script to work on an alpha channel rather than only on newly entered text?

My plan is to make the logo in inkscape (done that already), save it as a png as big as I like, then open it with Gimp and apply the script to get the 3D effect.

I tried using the tutorial on which the script is based, but I think it uses an older version of Gimp and some of the settings were different. Suffice to say, it didn't work.

Gimp's bevel almost works, but the effect isn't quite as nice as the Shrek one.

:confused:

(Apologies to xequence for hi-jacking the thread :rolleyes: )

[JimmyJazz]

Since we're on the subject, I have a gimp question which I posted (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=101949) earlier but drew no response...

It's about scripts. Now, I'm not a programmer so what I know about these things is based on taking a working one and attempting to adapt it to do what I want. Sometimes it works, but the actual script is usually a mess.

Anyway, there's this script I installed, Shrek Text:

http://img63.exs.cx/img63/3558/shrek.png (http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4705)


(available here (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=4038&d=1133434715)) , which is under the main gimp window. I have a logo design ('borrowed' from the web) which I want to adapt to my own design. The version I have is only 200x200px and I wish to enlarge it. I've traced it in inkscape, but I would like to apply the 3D effect in Shrek Text to it.

I noticed that some of the scripts make themselves available both inthe Gimp window and in the Image window, the latter being applied to an alpha channel.
How can I adapt that script to work on an alpha channel rather than only on newly entered text?

My plan is to make the logo in inkscape (done that already), save it as a png as big as I like, then open it with Gimp and apply the script to get the 3D effect.

I tried using the tutorial on which the script is based, but I think it uses an older version of Gimp and some of the settings were different. Suffice to say, it didn't work.

Gimp's bevel almost works, but the effect isn't quite as nice as the Shrek one.

:confused:

(Apologies to xequence for hi-jacking the thread :rolleyes: )

you'll have to write your own script (or modify this one).

or you could just do everything the script does by hand just open the script and look thru it.
here is some ducumentation on writing plugins that may help...
http://developer.gimp.org/writing-a-plug-in/1/index.html

[xmastree]

I'm sure I replied to that... :confused:

Anyway, that's easier said than done. I tried modifying it, and I tried going through it manually. Neither worked... :(

I'll check that plugin site, might be useful. Thanks.

[PuNGS]

When I had Windows, I used Photoshop CS 2. But now I have installed Ubuntu over Windows, and I use The GIMP and I'm starting with Inkscape.

[xmastree]

For quick photo retouching, there's always XNview (http://www.xnview.com/). Handy for the more simple tasks like cropping, colour balancing, and it has a really good focus enhancment filter.

Download the rpm (http://download.xnview.com/XnView-static.i386.rpm) and use alien to convert it.