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Joe Redifer

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2007, 08:48:34 AM »
Or perhaps you use it because it is FREE and included with every copy of Windows!  :)

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2007, 08:54:13 AM »
Screw Paint.  I use Gimp, which is free and much more powerful.
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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2007, 10:27:57 AM »
I guess you are just a free software kind of guy

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2007, 11:08:39 AM »
Don't underestimate MS Paint, you guys! I actually made some pretty good promo posters on it for my anime club years ago.  I still remember making a promo poster for "Pizza & Turtles" night for my club's special screening of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon at my local sci-fi convention.  You can also import special fonts and high quality screenshots into it.

Hell, I also made some mock screenshot edits for Langrisser II for the Genesis on Paint just so I can show off my skills at the Hiryuu Honyaku game translation forums.

In short, MS Paint rules! :D

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Joe Redifer

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2007, 11:58:41 AM »
I kept thinking that you were saying "porno posters", not "promo".

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2007, 12:49:45 PM »
gimp is bad-ass. basically a free photoshop  8)

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2007, 04:09:13 PM »
MS Paint is excellent, it's gotta be the best Microsoft program by far and is one of the few non-open source programs I use.
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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2007, 09:44:47 AM »
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I kept thinking that you were saying "porno posters", not "promo".
LMAO! :lol: Dude, I wish I could be that daring!

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2007, 11:48:38 AM »
gimp is bad-ass. basically a free photoshop  8)
Almost, but not quite. As capable as The GIMP is, it will never replace Photoshop until it supports CMYK and other non-RGB/greyscale colorspaces and cleans up the interface substantially.

Don't get me wrong, I use The GIMP at home (and Photoshop at work), but I wouldn't consider them in the same league just yet.

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2007, 12:29:16 PM »
I've used Gimp to mess around but use cs2 for all of my deeds. I think that Gimp is a great alternative though. If only they incorporated cmyk  :-k

Joe Redifer

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2007, 12:53:20 PM »
What would YOU do personally with CMYK, turbo D?

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2007, 01:01:44 PM »
I would use it to make a portrait of you Joe  :wink:

Joe Redifer

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2007, 02:26:29 PM »
But my portrait is just fine in RGB!

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Re: Why I use Paint instead of Photoshop.
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2007, 04:12:26 PM »
i dunno anything about gimp, but PS/CS2 is such powerfull and gives you sheer infinite possibilities an ordinary mortal never may to obtain using all of them.
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