Any good grapic design programs.

[animedudematt]

Im looking for some good graphic design programs and stuff all i have is psp8 is that any good?

[b4k4]

I've only used PSP8 a bit, and wasn't entirely thrilled by it.

Have you looked at GIMP (http://www.gimp.org)? It's a nice open-source (and free) image editor. On top of that, version 2.0 was just released a few days ago, bringing with it many improvments over 1.2. A Windows installer is available at http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/, so you might want to give it a shot.

[Yamano667]

GIMP is a good program but if you can get photoshop it would be better much
much better

[lavalyn]

Originally Posted by Yamano667

GIMP is a good program but if you can get photoshop it would be better much
much better

Remember to pay for Photoshop if you intend to use it. (It's not cheap.)

[animedudematt]

So this gimp thing is free right and i dont have the money for PS, does any1 now the exact dl site for gimp.

[Green²]

Don't forget to install GTK+ first if you intend to run GIMP on Windows.

[animedudematt]

I got gimp but there is no read me or anything so i dont know how to use all of its funktions.

[ato]

I am certainly no power user (just making my avatars ) but this might get you started anyway. The site lists a bunch of books as well, but of course those are the dead-tree variant, and do require some exchange of credits...

[b4k4]

Originally Posted by animedudematt

I got gimp but there is no read me or anything so i dont know how to use all of its funktions.

GIMP may not be real strong on the internal help end, but so far, I've learned everything I know (could know more, but I still know more than a lot of people) by pushing random buttons and experimenting with different outcomes. You don't like what a given function does? CTRL+Z. Don't like that color change? CTRL+Z. Simple as that.

[b4k4]

Originally Posted by Yamano667

GIMP is a good program but if you can get photoshop it would be better much
much better

Yes, Photoshop is quite nice (it's filters easily beat out the ones on any other editor), but few people have the $700-900 to lay out for a copy. (Yes, I know about PS Elements, but personally, I prefer not to use watered down versions of a program. )

For casual (and even some heavier) image editing, GIMP does a great job.

[animedudematt]

Thnx guys, been experimenting, ill get the hang of it sooner or l8r.