hand drawn art and software

[charlieluna]

I am an artist and I am looking for a good piece of software that allows me to import images that I have scanned and copied to my laptop and manipulate them anyway that I want. I ultimately want to create clothing and other accessories with designs that I make for a club I am creating. The one major feature I am looking for is to mirror an image and join the 2 images together to make one image. I have a wing I have drawn and I want to be able to create an exact mirror of it and join the halves together so that it is all one piece. What software can do this?

[ajgreeny]

You could try hugin as a standalone app or fotoxx, neither of which I have used. I have, however, often used gimp with pandora plugin with pretty good results for stitching photographs together.

[charlieluna]

thanks dude! i will locate those and give them a try. I did find a program through the ubuntu software center that is the gnome version of MS Paint. that might work but I will try those programs as well.

I had it installed on my laptop already but I added the add-ons that were available for it. I'll try it out tomorrow. Don't have time tonight. But thanks for pointing me in that direction!!!!

[Triblaze]

As he said, I'd definitely recommend GIMP. If you've ever used Photoshop, it's quite similar to that, though lacks some of the more in depth features.