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"BEST GRAPHICS PROGRAM TO USE?"

I would say PSP7(paint shop pro 7) because i found it so easy to use. I'm yet to go out and get the PSP8 and try it out, i heard it has soem of the most amazing features.

I would also recommend Adobe Photoshop 7, it's very easy to use and layers are easy to. If your no good with this kind of program then look up soem touritials as it is very easy to learn.


Anyway, what do you think?

I would say PSP7(paint shop pro 7) because i found it so easy to use. I'm yet to go out and get the PSP8 and try it out, i heard it has soem of the most amazing features.

I would also recommend Adobe Photoshop 7, it's very easy to use and layers are easy to. If your no good with this kind of program then look up soem touritials as it is very easy to learn.


Anyway, what do you think?

Photoshop is the daddy, no doubts. PSP is very good and does most of the things Photoshop does, but not quite.

There is a really good one on Linux but I can't remember its name at the moment.

Yeah, Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro are probably best and most user-friendly. Microsoft Gif Animator is a free to download animation pacakge for .Gifs that is really simple to use, although the colour palette is screwed on mine.

I personally can't stand Photoshop, I much prefer the way The GIMP works. PS just takes so much effort to do simple things.

I also like Fireworks MX. It has lots of advantages.

PSP7 is rather difficult to use at first, especially in drawing new images, as the tools that you expect to be there in front of you are, well... not. It also doesn't help that I'm still using a mouse that strains my wrist whenever precision is required, so I'm saving up for a graphics tablet.

Turbonutter wrote:
> I personally can't stand Photoshop, I much prefer the way The GIMP
> works. PS just takes so much effort to do simple things.
>
> I also like Fireworks MX. It has lots of advantages.

Once you get used to PS it is great. Huge but great. Don't know about Fireworks MX, I had 4 and loathed it. Used PS or PSP for things instead.

Turbonutter wrote:
> I much prefer the way The GIMP works.

Is it the leather mask with the zips that you like best?

Photoshop no doubt. Easily the best 2d graphics program I've used. Of course its not exactly cheap so if you're going to buy the program that people recommend I'd check out the trial version to see what you think of it.

I use Paint Shop Pro 7, and find it does pretty much everything I need it to for photo correction, editing, and printing too, along with exports to jpeg and gif for web graphics.

But I ought to mention Serif's PhotoPlus 8 as well, which is cheaper and almost as good (better in some respects).

Tyddy wrote:
> I would say PSP7(paint shop pro 7) because i found it so easy to use.
> I'm yet to go out and get the PSP8 and try it out, i heard it has soem
> of the most amazing features.

I've not used PSP8, and although theres no doubting the simplicity of PSP7 - especially given that PhotoShop tends to leave me a little lost :) .. However, I've found PhotoShop Elements to be a pretty good PSP alternative... Its simple to pick up, and has a decent level of flexibility