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Smalls -> =Education= Art Resources Thread (8/25/2012 17:13:28)
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Works on both Mac and PC
Free Programs:
Fire Alpaca - Free digital painting program which works on both PC and Mac. Similar to PaintTool SAI. Can save as .PSD to upload to Photoshop to add textures, filters, text, etc.
GIMP - Free digital art program. Similar to Photoshop. Same basic uses as Photoshop. Fantastic to use if you can't afford Photoshop
Mypaint - Minimalistic digital painting program. Easy to use interface with very little distractions, the entire thing is basically your canvas.
Paid Programs:
Adobe Photoshop - Standard digital art program. Used for touching up photos, creating digital paintings, and creating tags. Plenty of textures, filters, and brush customization available. Highly recommended for all digital artists..
Adobe Flash - Used for game making, animation, and vector art. AE uses it. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was animated with it. Uses the coding language Actionscript.
Adobe Illustrator - I've never used it, but it's a vector art program. Maybe someone else can add something about it.
Manga Studio - Used to create comics. Debut uses raster, Pro uses vector. Easy to use interface and good program if you want to create comics. Highly recommended for comic creators.
Corel Painter - Digital painting program, uses a natural look. Not a bad program.
artrage - Digital painting program. If I remember correctly it's similar to mypaint. It's a good program.
PC only
Paid Programs:
PaintTool SAI - Digital painting program. Easy to use interface. One of the best digital painting programs with an ability to export as a .PSD to get the filters, textures, text, etc. that it doesn't have but Photoshop does. Highly recommended for digital painters.
Various Resources
FY Character design - Different character designs, has various tutorials in there along with finished character designs.
Colour Lovers - Various colour palettes. Fantastic if you're looking for a colour scheme for a painting, tag, character, or simply just inspiration.
Feel free to add onto the list
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