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I need a new image editor :I
13 years ago
openCanvas has brushes that I've gotten accustomed to, and the network drawing feature is still bizarrely unique in the drawing world. But it's oooooooold. And constantly feels like a half-baked beta version (which.. I think it technically is?)
Photoshop has all the editing pizazz (MAAAAAASKS! WOOO!), but I hate their brushes. Maybe it's just me, but they feel so big and smudgy compared to oC. They've got all those little options but I hardly touch any of them (apart from size, opacity, flow, etc) because they just make the brush shape go fugly.
I've even tried Artrage, but while all those simulation brushes look like... yknow.. oil and stuff, I can't for the life of me figure out how to make drawings that don't look like preschool scribbles.
I've found a few apps on Mac that are kind of interesting but still kinda weird and quirky to edit in compared to Photoshop's layers and masks and stuff. Most of my artz at the moment are done on my home PC, which for the moment is still windows.
Photoshop has all the editing pizazz (MAAAAAASKS! WOOO!), but I hate their brushes. Maybe it's just me, but they feel so big and smudgy compared to oC. They've got all those little options but I hardly touch any of them (apart from size, opacity, flow, etc) because they just make the brush shape go fugly.
I've even tried Artrage, but while all those simulation brushes look like... yknow.. oil and stuff, I can't for the life of me figure out how to make drawings that don't look like preschool scribbles.
I've found a few apps on Mac that are kind of interesting but still kinda weird and quirky to edit in compared to Photoshop's layers and masks and stuff. Most of my artz at the moment are done on my home PC, which for the moment is still windows.
As for purely photo-editing, I still go with Jasc PaintShopPro 9
SmoothDraw3 is a free program similar to open canvas that I also really liked.
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● I use photoshop cs5 and painter 12 for their respective benefits. Painter has excellent rendering for inks btw.
● Pixelmator was underwhelming.
● Artrage didn't really cover what I wanted so I didn't try it much.
● Manga Studio has potential for comic styles if you're willing to take the time to figure it out.
● Could always give the full version of openCanvas a shot. I haven't looked into it myself.
● If you're fine with vmware, you can always boot up Sai. That's definitely a favorite.