Looking for better Paint program

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Boatman

Frequently, I need to embellish bitmaps with simple drawings and text. I
find MS Paint to be very difficult to use and programs like Photoshop to be
way too complicated. Actually, what is "just right" for my needs is the
drawing function within Excel, which I end up using for my work. Is there a
FW prog which is similar to this that might actually be better to use?

Thanks!

Boatman
 
Frequently, I need to embellish bitmaps with simple drawings and text. I
find MS Paint to be very difficult to use and programs like Photoshop to be
way too complicated. Actually, what is "just right" for my needs is the
drawing function within Excel, which I end up using for my work. Is there a
FW prog which is similar to this that might actually be better to use?

Thanks!

Boatman
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Pixia
http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/

regards

Dud
 
Dan said:
| Actually, what is "just right" for my needs is the drawing function
| within Excel, which I end up using for my work.

I don't know of anything which works like that. Depending on what you
want to draw, you could try....
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Springboard - http://6sys.com/Springboard/index.html
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"Springboard is free and useful for personal projects. The free version
places watermarks on images and expires three months after the release
date (a new free version will be available about every four weeks)."

Free Crippleware and Expireware.

No thank you.
dM
 
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:01:19 +0100, digitalMOSQUITO
| "Springboard is free and useful for personal projects. The free version
| places watermarks on images and expires three months after the release
| date (a new free version will be available about every four weeks)."

Seems that I hadn't tried the latest version. Thanks for alerting us
to this.





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Doug Hart said:
Embellish (freeware, was shareware, unsupported) OS: Win9x
(English)
Graphics Editor / Paint / Animated GIF Editor
Author/Home Page: dadaware http://www.dadaware.com/
Download v 2.1 (2.1 MB) http://www.sharemation.com/mfanning/embwin.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-02-16)

If you find v2.1 let me know.
---
Doug Hart




Boatman said:
Thanks for all the replies. I will try all the suggestions!

Boatman


Duddits said:
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Babya Photo Workshop 2 by Babya Software Group
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1074152648 - 712KB
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Dogwaffle is pretty good.

http://www.squirreldome.com/cyberop.htm

coma


Doug Hart said:
Embellish (freeware, was shareware, unsupported) OS: Win9x
(English)
Graphics Editor / Paint / Animated GIF Editor
Author/Home Page: dadaware http://www.dadaware.com/
Download v 2.1 (2.1 MB) http://www.sharemation.com/mfanning/embwin.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-02-16)

If you find v2.1 let me know.
---
Doug Hart




Boatman said:
Thanks for all the replies. I will try all the suggestions!

Boatman


Duddits said:
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c_e said:
Dogwaffle is pretty good.

http://www.squirreldome.com/cyberop.htm
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Pixia is the best I have found. It has an interface you have to study for a
few minutes, with the help of the tutorials you find on the web.
After that it is a very easy program to handle.
It works very well in older and slower computers.

But it lacks the ability to rotate the brush, so we need a lot of brush
bitmaps to change between.

Does anybody know a paint program where you can rotate the brush, in small
steps like 15 degrees?
 
Roger Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
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Pixia is the best I have found. It has an interface you have to study for a
few minutes, with the help of the tutorials you find on the web.
After that it is a very easy program to handle.
It works very well in older and slower computers.
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But it lacks the ability to rotate the brush, so we need a lot of brush
bitmaps to change between.
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Does anybody know a paint program where you can rotate the brush, in small
steps like 15 degrees?
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I don't do paint, but it looks like this one might rotate to a user
specified angle (just looking at the interface image):

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/ultimatepaint191f.html
 
Roger Johansson said:
Pixia is the best I have found. It has an interface you have to study for a
few minutes, with the help of the tutorials you find on the web.
After that it is a very easy program to handle.
It works very well in older and slower computers.

But it lacks the ability to rotate the brush, so we need a lot of brush
bitmaps to change between.

Does anybody know a paint program where you can rotate the brush, in small
steps like 15 degrees?
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Just looking at the Pixia page now, looks interesting - thanks for the tip!

c
 
I don't do paint, but it looks like this one might rotate to a user
specified angle (just looking at the interface image):

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/ultimatepaint191f.html
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Practically all paint programs can rotate the whole picture, but I want to
rotate the brush I am using.

I have developed a few new brushes for Pixia.
One is a leaves brush, for painting leaves on trees and bushes.

I is like taking a big brush and just touch the canvas with it, you get a
number of dots.
I had to make 9-12 brushes of each size, where the leaves are hanging in
different directions.
In reality you can rotate the brush to change the direction of the leaves.

If it was possible to rotate the brush I would only need one of each size
and type.
If the size of the brush is settable too I would only need one size of each
brush.

In Pixia you can change the size of a few brushes, but not for the
user-created brushes.
 
| Does anybody know a paint program where you can rotate the brush, in small
| steps like 15 degrees?

I use the "random rotate" option for the custom brushes and clipart
brushes in ImageForge - http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html Not
sure whether you can specify the rotation, but it works well for
leaves and other large brushes.





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Lord Possum said:
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That is now .. the older freeware version was complete and unlimited in
version 1.11 ... still available at:

http://www.tucows.com/preview/295721.html
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Apologies if I misled anyone - I wasn't aware that the author had begun
charging for the latest version. Last time I'd been on the site dogwaffle
was 100% free...as the poster above pointed out, the previous version is
still freeware.

coma
 
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