good free painting program

[pdham]

I need a good free painting program... or really cheap. I am a starving college student and cant afford illustrator or Photoshop.

Thanks

 

[VegetaPunk]

http://www.macpoweruser.com/idraw/index.html

dont know how good it is but it has a demo, it is about 40 bucks

BTW try your schools book store Photoshop might be really cheap since your a student (if its for mac there) or a program thats some what decant, might be worth looking into

 

[pdham]

yea.. photoshop is only $149 through ny university (which is very cheap), however I will be purchasing indesign and dreamweaver (as they are more important right now) so I really dont have the money for photoshop as well.

 

[ZeppelinArmada]

MacGimp

While it requires X11, and I highly recommend the Apple preview 3 (the current version for now), I have found Gimp to be a viable alternative to photoshop. It is absolutely free and can be found here: http://www.osxgnu.org/software/Xwin/Applications/

 

[MacBandit]

Re: good free painting program

Originally posted by pdham
I need a good free painting program... or really cheap. I am a starving college student and cant afford illustrator or Photoshop.

Thanks

I wouldn't call Photoshop a painting program. It's more of an industrial editing tool.

Try a trial edition of Painter 7 from Corel. It is the best painting program on the market and it's a free trial. I hope you have broadband it's a large download.

You can find all of Corels free trial downloads here.

 

[pdham]

Re: MacGimp

Originally posted by ZeppelinArmada
While it requires X11, and I highly recommend the Apple preview 3 (the current version for now), I have found Gimp to be a viable alternative to photoshop. It is absolutely free and can be found here: http://www.osxgnu.org/software/Xwin/Applications/

THANK YOU!!!
I had downloaded gimp from there website, but with all the various things I had to download and then configure, make and build, I gave up because it was to intense for me to handle... I was not aware that a nice .pkg file existed for it.

THanks again

Paul

 

[daniel77]

omg 150 for photoshop i will have tu keep ur name for when i buy my mac