Erlik opened this issue on Jun 01, 2005 ยท 12 posts
Erlik posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 4:19 PM
For starters, a free image editing program, Serif Photoplus. Appears to be a good alternative to Photoshop. Supports Photoshop-compatible plugins. They've got several other free programs.
Then, a free plugin to create panoramic images, PanoTools. Has versions for Windows and Mac. Windows version also has a plugin for GIMP.
Reptile is nominally a program to create "funky" tileable web backgrounds. Of course, "funky" textures can also be done. :-)
Microsoft-owned Creature House Expression is a free vector drawing program.
Finally, a free painting program, Dogwaffle. Download and enjoy.
-- erlik
DigitalSteve posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 4:50 PM
Creature House Expression is awsome. you can use massive brushes to create massive natural backgrounds and the canvas will run on even a mediochre pc 'cos everything is vectorized.
ysvry posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 7:59 PM
yes looks great thx for the links
Kemal posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 8:10 PM
Attached Link: http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-2191_4-10398243.html?tag=lst-2-7
Deep Paint 2.0, nice 2d painting program, is free now !...Check it out :D
foleypro posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 11:39 PM
Downloading DeepPaint right now... I also just spent $480.00 on Zbrush2...Man Maybe I should have waited a week or so,Deeppaint is a great program too..
Marque posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 12:31 AM
Zbrush is pretty cool though. You can't model in Deep Paint and you can in Zbrush. Thanks for the links! Marque
Marque posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 12:41 AM
Weird, downloaded the creature expressions but it wasn't an exe like it shows on the download page. Am I missing something? Thanks, Marque
Marque posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 12:42 AM
Never mind, put a .exe on it and it's installing. Marque
pakled posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 7:05 AM
can't get reptile to download (can't find an active link). But I think I have it from earlier..thanks..
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danamo posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 12:15 PM
Great links Erlik and Kemal!! I can't believe Deep Paint is now a free app, I've wanted it for a long time!! The other apps look very useful as well. :-)
Erlik posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 1:39 PM
I have a problem with Expression. That colour picker is magenta! Deinstalled and reinstalled and it persists. I had the same problem when I installed Photoshop 7, but a deinstall and reinstall fixed it.
-- erlik
Erlik posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 3:34 PM
Pakled, you can download Texture Processor. It appears to be even better than Reptile.
-- erlik