Free Drawing Software

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.

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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.

 

 

 

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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

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

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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 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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Sorry folks. I close this topic because it's going widely off-tracks.
Please read the forum rules again, see here : http://www.astahost.com/index.php?act=boardrules
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.

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