Photoshop like Program

[Specifications]

I have 1 Question what do you guys useto make such beauitful pictures liek sir banner or some of sir members sig...

[Sir. Chauncey]

Photoshop.

[golfman560]

I had a nice program but I probably lost it when I tried manually rebooting my computer.

Edit: is there a freeware version of photoshop?

[tneslleH]

hmm i think there is an online version of Adobe photoshop which is gonna be like a trial so you can try before you buy...but i think its gonna be realesed in 6 months

[ledbythereaper]

Could use the G.I.M.P if you want a freeware photo editing prog.

[golfman560]

Whatever...

Photoshop is still the best.

[Sir. Chauncey]

I belive that GIMP and Photoshop have fairly equal abilities. From personal experience however, PS is much easier to use.

[superj358]

i want a Sir. sig they look awsome

[golfman560]

I belive that GIMP and Photoshop have fairly equal abilities. From personal experience however, PS is much easier to use.

Gimp is rather confusing but once you get used to it you can easily do something equivalent to what someone using Photoshop could do.

[Sir. Shpox]

Jasc Paint Shop Pro if you have no idea how to use Photoshop to its extents.
Stay away from Corel Paint Shop and Macromedia Fireworks.

I use photoshop and jasc simultaneously. I'm not a big fan of GIMP but there is no restrictions to what you can do. Jasc however comes with an animation program. Jasc is a few years old but they were rather competitive with Photoshop at 7.0 until they implemented the excellent layering program.

Jasc is essentially is extremely user friendly, but it can only get you so far. I use it for texturing purposes aswell as using it for reduction. Great for a quick edit. I've been using photshop for years now, and the limits are endless. If you are going to be using Photoshop for a long time - years, I suggest you work your way up with that. About 6 years ago, I had to transfer from Jasc to photoshop and the transition wasn't too smooth.

[Bullace]

If you use Gimp, use Gimp shop ;), it's Gimp but looks more like photoshop :D
http://www.gimpshop.com/

[Sir. Jameslcfc]

I use Photoshop, that's what I used to make my avatar :p Took me about half an hour :mellow:

[Bullace]

:p used urs and replaced jeep with a vodnik :D

[golfman560]

:p used urs and replaced jeep with a vodnik :D

Lol Apache



But as Shopx said Jasc has an animation program but now PS has one too so Photoshop is the best and probably the most expensive.

[Specifications]

2 Questions!

Wut about the 3d sigs some has that its raining

and

i got photoshop cs 3

how u make that glow

and the mirror

[Kantholz]

:p used urs and replaced jeep with a vodnik :D

used another one and replaced it with a tank :rolleyes:

btw: im using ps cs3

[Sir. Shpox]

used another one and replaced it with a tank :rolleyes:


Touche :p

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6287/untitled1copyrr0.png

[Sir. Jameslcfc]

Haha, Shpox that's awesome!
Nice to see my avatar being used many times over :p

[Sir. Jameslcfc]

Maybe he got it a while back. And I beta tested CS3 for 2 days and it's not much different anyway so...

[][llusion]

Jasc however comes with an animation program. Jasc is a few years old but they were rather competitive with Photoshop at 7.0 until they implemented the excellent layering program.

Uhh... the GIMP also has an animation program. It uses the layers as frames. It's tricky to use but I use it sometimes.

And as others have said, the GIMP is a very confusing program to use. It does have some limitations as to what you can do, but if your really good with it, you can make some sweet art. :D

[ELEMENT]

Gimp's a pain in the ass at times........

[Elxx]

Photoshop is always a pain in the ass. Versions after the first CS install several other things that nobody wants, such as Adobe Bridge. And of course there's no way to opt out. What a piece of junk.

And opening a 10Mb PSD file, Photoshop magically eats up 700Mb of memory. But of course it's the industry standard and Adobe bought out their last real competitor, so we're stuck with it.

Also, what's up with ImageReady? Who was the moron that thought Photoshop should be split into two different programs (of course both are always installed no matter what) instead of just adding animation support to Photoshop itself?

That being said, I use Photoshop CS and don't plan to ever upgrade because of the aforementioned additions, as well as idiotic changes to the layers palette that slow me down. Selecting two layers at once is close to useless because you can barely do anything with them, and linking layers together in CS2 takes several clicks as opposed to just one in CS.

[SpungE]

Photoshop is always a pain in the ass. Versions after the first CS install several other things that nobody wants, such as Adobe Bridge.

People who use photoshop for professional photo editing find Bridge to be an excellent way of sorting files. In fact it's very nice to be able to preview raw shots without having to open them.

And opening a 10Mb PSD file, Photoshop magically eats up 700Mb of memory.

:mellow:

Also, what's up with ImageReady? Who was the moron that thought Photoshop should be split into two different programs (of course both are always installed no matter what) instead of just adding animation support to Photoshop itself?

The moron who thought halving the loading time would be a good idea.

as well as idiotic changes to the layers palette that slow me down. Selecting two layers at once is close to useless because you can barely do anything with them

I use photoshop 7 on the college computers and I just cannot use the linking system. Selecting multiple layers is so much easier for dragging stuff around ect.

[Sir. Shpox]

I have to agree with Elxx and I warn all of those who download CS3 to be aware. My first version of the product was dodgy. It read almost everysingle file with a p in it on my computer. This also read sony Vegas's .pdd files, the User Interface Files causing the program not to load. In this current time, I use almost all the adobe if not previosuly macromedia products. A lot of useless junk is installed and if uninstalled will cause other programs to not work.

I suggest people stay with CS2. Even though I'm using CS3 right now, it's not too different apart for those who use CS3 extensively for 3d applications. Otherwise, don't expect too many shiney new features or a performance gain.

Photoshop is a commercially used program so it is a memory hog, no doubt, this can be turned down but not without effecting the functionality of the program. This is where Imageready comes in but I personally just use Jasc. Imageready is a "light" version so to speak make for.. well less "pwoof" and primarily for web design and bitmap editing. Why not make a photoshop "lite" ? I thought.

Anywho. Stick with your CS/CS2's unless you plan to import 3d models. Most people (Including myself) will never ever use photoshops full potential in their lifetime. And apart from some of those "GFX" communities whose life ultimately revolves around a piece of software to which they can make sigs for people to gain e-penis, there's no ideal need to upgrade if you don't need too.

Oh and I think Adobe may have disabled a preview features for all files now. SWF's now need to opened by Flash to be played, and same with xml files, you need to open the program, press F12 to preview the file unlike previous versions of Macromedia products.

Edit:
May aswell note Imageready is no longer available with CS3. Another annoying thing is that you have to find new versions of most of your plugins due to incompatibilities, this includes Illustrator more so.

[Lavitz_of_Wind]

And apart from some of those "GFX" communities whose life ultimately revolves around a piece of software to which they can make sigs for people to gain e-penis, there's no ideal need to upgrade if you don't need too.

God, I sure hope that is a typo. :p

On topic, I have CS2 and have no problems with it, and I said to myself "Why go and download CS3 and risk screwing something up when I have a perfectly good, fully functional CS2?" so I didn't get CS3. I really don't understand what Adobe Bridge is all about, though I've had it for quite a while.

I have Dreamweaver CS3, but I've hardly touched it. It came with Adobe Bridge CS3, and though I got Adobe Bridge when I got CS2, I got 2 versions of Adobe Bridge now, and Adobe Bridge CS3 doesn't show up in Add/Remove Programs, though CS2 does. Quite weird...

[Sir. Cheesecake]

One of the only good features of CS3 has to be Vanishing Point. That thing is damn awesome. Stay away from CS3 though. Its way slower then CS2 and doesnt reep much benfeit over CS2 other then some 3-d tools

People who use photoshop for professional photo editing find Bridge to be an excellent way of sorting files. In fact it's very nice to be able to preview raw shots without having to open them.



Not anymore. They created a new program for that and it works a helluva lot better then bridge. Adobe Lightroom its called.

[Sir. Jameslcfc]

CS2 has vanishing point...

[Sir. Cheesecake]

i meant enhanced

[Sir. Jameslcfc]

Ah, ok :p I don't use vanishing point anyway, I used it once in a tutorial and saw no need for it so no CS3 for me :)

[Delta2800]

lol :D
to tell you the truth i use photo impact pro its like a exact copy of photoshop
i have used photoshop btw

[SpungE]

Not anymore. They created a new program for that and it works a helluva lot better then bridge. Adobe Lightroom its called.

Hmm... let me see, buying photoshop and another program to arrange photos, or buying photoshop and getting bridge free. *strokes chin.

[XG]

Gimp is rather confusing but once you get used to it you can easily do something equivalent to what someone using Photoshop could do.
couldn't have said it better, but I might add that GIMP is Free.

If you use Gimp, use Gimp shop ;), it's Gimp but looks more like photoshop :D
http://www.gimpshop.com/
Interesting, I must try that...

[Specifications]

so guys can any1 answer it xD i posted so many times but no is talking!


i got CS3

how do u make a sig like sir.gen his is mad kool! wat kind of program?

anyways to make a sig like that in photoshop? that is moving....

[XG]

GIMPSHOP is class

[Electrical_Storm]

i use Paint.NET its very similar to PS, just maybe not as user-friendly

works fine 4 me ^^