Photoshop is good to get used to, especially if you want to go professional.

However, I think most people prefer Windows Paint for its simplicity. (Including me)

Speaking of which, I really should get Photoshop. And a tablet.


Anyhow I think this topic is deserving of a new thread at this point. Moderators, if you please?

I'm extremely hard pressed to find a single command that i use with great convenience in MSPAINT. Which is single shade transparency. I don't even think Pant.NET has that function which caused me to simply go with MSPaint for all my tasks. Doing PW without 1 bit-transparency is a pain in the ass. Layers, i do have Paint.net & Graphics Gale for these if i ever need them to put things together without merging pixels or whatnot. I cna do nearly everything i would need to do in pixel art in MSPaint, Rotate, Resize, pick a color tool.

The biggest setbacks as i can see are lack of true image transparency, no hotkeys for anything and the lack of simple rotation. [There is a trick i used to get around this, skew positive horizontally and vertically negative to rotate clockwise etc...(integers inputted should be half of desired degrees desired for rotation].

All the others take awhile to load up, heck if i need transparency i usually go and use GameMaker image editor for its utter simplicity.

Preferences are all about what you like.

Either way, i'm not a professional anyway and i don;t plan to be one so it suits me fair enough.

Ditto. Although I would like an eye-dropper shortcut -_-

Thoughts on Vector editors? Inkscape vs Illustrator?

Vector art? WHAT HERESY!


Anywho, Inkscape = GIMP, Illustrator = Photoshop.
Same situation.

Illustrator is the industry standard, just like Photoshop.

I use Serif DrawPlus.
It's like the professional stuffs but incredibly easy.

Just fyi alpha is a much better way to do transparency. .png can handle it too so that's a pretty damn easy way to handle images. With indexed .png you have the option to go full alpha channel or 1 bit as well.

It's not like having access to 255 (or more) levels of alpha means you can't go all out.

A split topic wouldn't hurt.