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~Freya03 Jun 22, 2012 Student General Artist

So, I've experienced with Paintshop Pro and Adobe Photoshop Elements.

I've made discussion with a few of my friends and a couple of teachers/instructors that I know about some softwares. They had introduced and suggested me to trying out Sai, Adobe Photoshop CS, Gimp, and Illustrator. From what they have told me, these kinds would work a lot better for me than what I recently have; especially for lineart.

I'm making thoughts about it, but I would like to hear all of your opinions upon any of the programs I have listed above.

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~bearOnUnicycle Jun 23, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

SAI is geared heavily towards painting with a tablet with few other things. Photoshop is awesomesauce, and you can do basically everything. Though, as pointed out, Illustrator works a lot better for text because it is a vector-based program. As the name implies, it's great for illustration (Think posters, comics, anything that can be made with vectors). GIMP is the open-source community's effort to provide a free Photoshop replacement program, though I find GIMP's interface heavily lacking in usability. The tablet mapping is also horrible in GIMP.

~defense2 Jun 23, 2012

If you want to do logos and text art work, such as the FedEX logo... You will need Illustrator. (Find the arrow in FedEx)

Photoshop is mostly to do effects on a given scale, you can't enlarge it very much because of how the program saves the information. In photoshop and its brother programs, the information saved is each pixel, and as you stretch it, you create pixelation. While Illustrator saves points, and you can either compress or expand the line art to any given size and all of the information is saved equally.

I can't show you the examples in illustrated form.

Photoshop. Making a picture from left to right of 1020 by 768 resolution, each pixel is saved. This creates a very large saved files, more so if you are saving in a lossless formate.

Illustrator. Same size of 1020 by 768 resolution. You create a box, inside of it, you have a gradeant of Red to Blue. (left to right.) You don't save each pixel, what you save is the box and the color of red and blue as a gradent formate. Illustrator fills in the rest of the information between the points.

The advantage of Illustrator in this case is once you made the illustration, you can then expand it to fix on the side of the tallest buildings, or even the moon.... or be as small as fitting on the tinniest atom.

This is partly why you will never see high detailed, high resolution babylon five episodes... their saved formate was in a pixelated formate... and was shot too low for todays TV's. (all for the want of a 3,000 USD monitor for rendering larger resolutions)

~lostcanvas13 Jun 23, 2012 Hobbyist

I used Photoshop CS and Illustrator. Have not try the other two, ~~in fact I didn't heard of them before~~, soI will not make any comment about those 2.
I will suggest you using Illustrator if you want to do lineart. it does not give you pixelated lines. Photoshop is more of effects purpose

*HeavenhairSixes Jun 23, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I seem to get along perfectly fine with GIMP. And as it is free you might as well give it a try.

People seem to get excitable about Sai because it has a stabiliser to help with making smooth lines, however the newest version of GIMP apparently has a smooth stroke feature for line art. I haven't tried it myself yet so I don't know if it works in a similar manner.

Inkscape is also free vector graphics software that might be worth looking into for line art.

~pichuX8664 Jun 23, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Obviously coming from the guy with absolutely no proprietary software on his system except audio-video codecs and the BIOS, go for GIMP 2.8 first.

`nokari Jun 22, 2012 Professional Interface Designer

Use them and then decide for yourself. People can tell you all day what they like, but it won't do you any good if you have too many problems using a program yourself or if it doesn't even do what you want. They all have free 30-day trials, so go ahead and try. GIMP is the only one on that list that's completely free, but it's also an alternative to Photoshop. The main difference is the interface, and it's up to you if that's what makes or breaks it.

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