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[Flora fairy of n...]

Can you please tell me what program do you use for making graphics? (banners, avatars, enter signs, etc.)
If you don't want to tell me it's ok and, please, don't tell me you use photoshop for the awesome avatars and graphics you do! Because I don't know how to use it! lol ^^ But, thanks anyway if you help me, telling me a name or a description of a program for making good grapics

[Anime Princess]

i use photo studieo its a program i got with my printer/scanner

[dittadulla]

I use Photofiltre, it's a program you can download free from the internet, I can post the link if you want^^.

I also use a trial version of paint shop pro 7, was supposed to work for 30 days, but it already passed that time so... it's good for me^^

EDIT: forgot to mention, paint shop pro still works for me^^

This post has been edited by dittadulla: Sep 7 2008, 1:04 PM

[Riiana]

I would recommend Paint.Net
Or Photoshop/ Photoimpact/ Adobe Photoshop CS2/CS3.
Or Paint Shop Pro.

[Flora fairy of n...]

Thank you very much girls! ^^ I'll try to download one of them (OF COURSE, ONLY IF YOU AGREE )

[dittadulla]

then I think I should post the link for Photofiltre... since it's free... http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm >go to downloads >english version^^

[Flora fairy of n...]

ok, thank you Ditta! ^^

[dittadulla]

you're welcome^^

[Jahnavi]

You could also try GIMP. I use that too, and it's pretty good, considering the fact that you can download it for free. ^^

[Zhanneel]

Ditto on Gimp. I'm used to it by now and it works well =)...and it's free, can't beat that. Also, if you're looking for add-ons (like more brushes) you can download them just like Adobe Photoshop extras. I like to go to deviantart for add-ons.

[Riiana]

Paint.NET Is free and never runs out. And its really easy to use ^^
So I'd suggest that one, unless you want to buy Photoshop,Photoimpact, but there are 30 day free trials on both of them so just play around with them all, see which ones you like to use.
Photoshop , Adobe Photoshop , Photimpact I would actually reccomend buying because they're such good programmes to use.

But yeah go ahead and downlaod them, no problemo ^^

[dittadulla]

oh, I want photoshop CS2/CS3 badly o.O

[Riiana]

{ Same here >< }

[AnnieBelle]

xD who needs CS2? I just use Photoshop Elements 3.0 {came with Wacom Graphire 4x6 tablet} and/or Photoshop elements 5.0/6.0 {not sure which, it came with my Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet}.

Oh, and GIMP. Totally third and a half on GIMP. And second on paint.NET.

Though if you have a lot of money to spend, get CS3.
Or, if you have US$69.99+, go get a graphics tablet. Preferably Wacom. It's nice to use, 'cause you have better control than a mouse or god forbid, a touchpad {though I use one, so I shouldn't say anything}, plus it comes with Photoshop Elements and some Corel program I forget the name of at the moment.

[Riiana]

{ Annie thanks for the advice I might use it myself =D }

[dittadulla]

oh, I recently downloaded GIMP... I haven't started using it much, just checking around.

oh, I saw on the windows that pop up in GIMP some icelandic buttons that say "cancel" and something like that in icelandic, and everything else is in english o.O when the window popped up I was like "Loka? what does that mean... oh, it's icelandic, it's cancel."

the row can be like that in the buttons: Hjálp, Reset, í lagi, hætta við... as you can see "reset" is english, the others are icelandic o.O

is it legal to confuse me like that?

[Meru]

Well I use Photoshop CS to do all of my graphics. I didn't buy it ./////. I downloaded the full version with a crack code from a P2P program(frostwire)

It took me a little while to figure it out you can also check out tutorials at websites to learn how to do different things.

I DID start out using Paint Shop Pro 7 though and used it up until about 4 years ago, when I switched over to photoshop.

But really It isnt just the program you use, as long as you can have layers I think its alright 8D

This post has been edited by Meru: Sep 10 2008, 6:29 PM

[dittadulla]

that may be stupid but... what is layers? xD

I use paint shop pro 7 but I have no idea what layer is xD

[Zhanneel]

Ahh, layers. My favorite feature of all graphic programs. It's a feature that lets you edit different layers of a graphic you are working on.

Ex: You want to make a Musa avatar, but you want to give her a different background.
You make two layers:

1) The top layer will be the Musa png (or whatever file type).
2) The bottom layer will be the background (however you choose to make it)

You can switch between these two layers whenever you want--lets you edit them easily without messing with the entire picture. You can delete the bottom layer without harming the top layer (without deleting the Musa pic). Then, if you wanted, you could put a different background behind her instead.

Some visual help if it's needed:

The first pic here shows the Layer dialog (or rather just "box"), with three different layers. So far none of the layers are hidden.


The next pic shows the middle layer (with the sparkles) hidden--notice the "eye" is not shown next to the Middle Layer in the Layer box.


You could make as many layers as you want when making a graphic, that way you can always alter a feature on it if you change your mind. However, make sure you save it as a "psd" file if you want to work on it later. Otherwise, if you're done working on it feel free to save it as a png, jpg, gif, etc, and it will flatten all of the layers into one layer. If that was too much "help" I'll try to hold back next time =P.

[AnnieBelle]

Actually, that's good help, Zhanneel.
Question though: why's your comp look sooo cool?