As with so many other things that writers have to learn aside from writing these days, a main issue is knowing what to avoid.Īs promised, I’m going to tell you about the programs to do this stuff with, and a bit on how to maximize your use of them. The programs I suggest are all free, or at most very cheap. Let me say a word about programs that aren’t free and cheap. The first thing you always hear when asking about doing your own artwork (or googling for suggestion on how to do something) is Adobe Photoshop. This is a professional program that costs anywhere from $300 to $1000. Most would say that getting what you need runs around $700. That should be enough to convince you to skip it and look elsewhere. It’s a hard program to use, and is set up kind of awkwardly and bassackward. A simple HTML5 animation application inspired by MacPaint, Deluxe Paint and MSPaint. I used to use it and considered it a pain in the butt. Created by James Hicks, if you have any feedback or bugs you can get in touch on Twitter.Id also love to see any cool GIFs you make using GIFPaint and will reblog them to the GIFPaint Tumblog. For awhile I only used it to bevel type and the “smudge” tool. Almost anything you need to do can be done easier with free programs, and often better. And PS has some glaring problems for people like us. For one thing, its vector structure makes it really bad at shrinking picture size. As one example of what I mean, on I can just keep hitting Ctrl Z (just like in all Windows programs, notice?) and delete changes one by one, all the way back. In Photoshop you get one “redo” then have to go into the history and fool around with that. Not a huge human sacrifice, sure, but something you have to learn. There are big thick books on how to use Photoshop.
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