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Osgeld Barmy
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Join date: 22 Mar 2005
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08-14-2007 23:06
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Jillian Callahan
Rotary-winged Neko Girl
Join date: 24 Jun 2004
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08-14-2007 23:44
It makes alpha channels very quickly and very nicely. I think novices especially will find it very nice.
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
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08-14-2007 23:54
I don't do much texturing but I love Paint.net. There are a huge number of effects plug-ins for it and the best part is, it's all free.
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Jillian Callahan
Rotary-winged Neko Girl
Join date: 24 Jun 2004
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08-15-2007 00:08
The one glaring shortcomming (and this assumes i didn't simply overlook it) is some form of "guide" overlay.
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
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08-15-2007 17:26
The one glaring shortcomming (and this assumes i didn't simply overlook it) is some form of "guide" overlay. Not sure what you mean. What would a guide overlay do? _____________________
Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. - Cyril Connolly Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence. - James Nachtwey |
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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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08-15-2007 18:22
I think she means the kind of translucent red overlay you get when you have the alpha channel visibility turned on in PS at the same time as the RGB channels or when you have the mask overlay turned on in PSP. I haven't played with paint.net enough to know if it can do that or not, but if it can't, then yeah, I'd call that an unfortunate limitation.
For what it's worth though, I think paint.net has tremendous potential. I'd love to see it evolve to supplant GIMP as the predominant open source image editor. Paint.net appears to be a much more sensible program than GIMP, from what I've seen of it. _____________________
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
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08-15-2007 22:35
I downloaded it to give it a try. It's pretty easy to understand and will save to TGA. But apparently it won't open Photoshop files. So Chip Midnight's templates won't open for me.
Thought it might be good to make textures then use my regular graphics program (the GIMP) to design them for clothes. I'm going to play with more. Thanks for the information..........the more the merrier as far as free graphics programs are concerned .  |
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Osgeld Barmy
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Join date: 22 Mar 2005
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08-15-2007 22:45
I downloaded it to give it a try. It's pretty easy to understand and will save to TGA. But apparently it won't open Photoshop files. So Chip Midnight's templates won't open for me. Thought it might be good to make textures then use my regular graphics program (the GIMP) to design them for clothes. I'm going to play with more. Thanks for the information..........the more the merrier as far as free graphics programs are concerned . you forgot to look in the plugins page http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=16 first non sticky thread = Photoshop file plugin, so there is hope eventho the plugin has its share of issues |