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16 years ago
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I currently have these programs at my disposal on my iMac for almost every sketching desire that comes over me:
* Rita — Quite possibly my favourite, and what I use the most often.
* Pixen — For pixel art; haven't done much with that yet.
* Seashore — Because running X11 on OS X just to use GIMP is horrendously jarring and non-conforming to other applications that follow the most basic parts of Apple HIG.
* GIMP — Really, I never really use it; Seashore does most of the things I need to do.
My conundrum, however, is while I would rather use Rita for everything that I want to do, the lack of layers is really hurting; I feel like I need to constantly erase and recolour just to get something right. Using GIMP on OS X is a big hassle in my opinion and Seashore, by design, of no fault of its own, doesn't support tab ... Oh... Wait... Never mind that; scratch that; call me dumb, even.
So... Well, in any case, GIMP still sucks on OS X in my opinion, and Seashore is a bit lacking in features and effects compared to GIMP (though it's not really a fault of Seashore). Other than buying (for I am a poor boy too pa-ra-ta-tam, tam *drums*) or pirating a particular piece of software most people know about, do others have any other options for me to experiment with — perhaps something inbetween GIMP and Seashore?
* Rita — Quite possibly my favourite, and what I use the most often.
* Pixen — For pixel art; haven't done much with that yet.
* Seashore — Because running X11 on OS X just to use GIMP is horrendously jarring and non-conforming to other applications that follow the most basic parts of Apple HIG.
* GIMP — Really, I never really use it; Seashore does most of the things I need to do.
My conundrum, however, is while I would rather use Rita for everything that I want to do, the lack of layers is really hurting; I feel like I need to constantly erase and recolour just to get something right. Using GIMP on OS X is a big hassle in my opinion and Seashore, by design, of no fault of its own, doesn't support tab ... Oh... Wait... Never mind that; scratch that; call me dumb, even.
So... Well, in any case, GIMP still sucks on OS X in my opinion, and Seashore is a bit lacking in features and effects compared to GIMP (though it's not really a fault of Seashore). Other than buying (for I am a poor boy too pa-ra-ta-tam, tam *drums*) or pirating a particular piece of software most people know about, do others have any other options for me to experiment with — perhaps something inbetween GIMP and Seashore?
