CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

PostPosted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:38 pm**

is there any other kind of rpogram to use besides photoshop?

PostPosted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:59 pm**

what are your requirements?

PostPosted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:05 pm**

For normal PS-style operations, you can try the GIMP or Pixia, both free...^^ It kind of depends on what you want to do though. If you want to color, those will both be sufficient. For image processing, you may want to use another program like Irfanview.

PostPosted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:29 pm**

PS is great for special effects... probably the best. Photo Shop Pro is kewl too, but lately it's been loosing it's fanbase and I'll admit that I didn't find it quite as good.

PostPosted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:03 pm**

And it's easy to find on the used market since it's so common. Even an old copy of Photoshop will still get you pretty good mileage. I bought PS7 and haven't really seen any need to upgrade to CS or CS2. Even PS6 might be enough for you, and that's pretty inexpensive used.

PostPosted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:00 pm**

I agree. I used CS at work, and other than some minor tools and some higher end functions that aren't needed for digital art (like the recording feature, which is cool, but only if you have to edit a batch of image sequences). Then I'd go home and use PS7, and I was fine. In fact, I still use 7. To be honest, CS had some rather nasty bugs that crashed the program quite often. Hopefully CS2 changed that.

PostPosted: **Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:17 pm**

http://www.gimp.org as inky suggested is a GREAT and FREE alternative to photoshop

PostPosted: **Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:44 pm**

There is the Gimp or Paint Shop Pro those are the only real alternatives and I don't recommended you invents in PSP just save up for PS

Good luck

PostPosted: **Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:23 am**

It doesn't really help anything in a topic to post the same thing *three* times. I think Ink and frwl's original posts were more than sufficient.

Ink wrote:For normal PS-style operations, you can try the GIMP or Pixia, both free...^^

frwl wrote:Photo Shop Pro is kewl too, but lately it's been loosing it's fanbase and I'll admit that I didn't find it quite as good.

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MSP wrote:www.gimp.org as inky suggested is a GREAT and FREE alternative to photoshop

WhiteBlaze wrote:There is the Gimp or Paint Shop Pro those are the only real alternatives and I don't recommended you invents in PSP just save up for PS