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Hey guys! Opinions please!!

I have a creaky old version of Corel Painter (like about 6.0). I'm sticking my toes in the map making waters again after a long hiatus and was wondering what some of you use in the way of software. Full blown Adobe Photoshop? Photoshop Elements? Something I've never heard of?? <quite possible!

It's been years and years since I needed to use paint programs in my work life, so any tidbits you could pass along would be most appreciated!

KKat

I have been using photoshop elements. However, I have been using texture files from freely downloadable sites. PE gets me enough of what I want without spending $500 on CS2.

I have done more work with Maya PLE for SMs than anything else.

I use an older version of Photoshop 7.0, not the CS2, as its not mandatory. There is a plug-in I used to make seamless tiled textures called "Real Texture Tools" its the one thing I use alot when needing a tileable texture as it does it in sizes the the map editor will want, i.e. 256X256, 512X512 etc.

:cheers:

DW_Wraith wrote:I use an older version of Photoshop 7.0, not the CS2, as its not mandatory. There is a plug-in I used to make seamless tiled textures called "Real Texture Tools" its the one thing I use alot when needing a tileable texture as it does it in sizes the the map editor will want, i.e. 256X256, 512X512 etc.

:cheers:

Wrait...Do you know if that plug in will work with Elements? I know some of the ones for Photoshop do work.

And thanks, Zeus! I've got a line on a better price for Photoshop, but still a couple of hundred versus...what..maybe $50 (or less) for Elements is looking better all the time.

KKat

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

You could try out this free paint program.

I have no idea if the texture plug in would work on anything other than photoshop. If you send me the textures, I will give you multiple sized outputs of any texture you want to be made seamless. just e-mail me via my yahoo address.

I got mine for free with my scanner... So bonus... ;)

I recommend The Gimp, which does have a Windows version despite being the premier Linux paint program. It is available at http://www.gimp.org for free. :)

Purity_the_Kitty wrote:I recommend The Gimp, which does have a Windows version despite being the premier Linux paint program. It is available at http://www.gimp.org for free. :)

Good point.. Or you could look into GimpShop, which is gimp with some photoshop like interfaces.

Hey! Thanks for all the input!! You guys have given me lots to check out!

I've got 3 different programs downloaded...gonna play around with them and see
which one is easy enough for my old brain cells to use! :compress:

Cya!

KKat

@ gimp.
Never used it, but i found this texturizer plugin for it long time ago.
http://www.manucornet.net/Informatique/Texturize.php

@ paint.net
wraith and others i know really like it, i never used it either.