[Mr.Kh]

Just wondering what everyones favorite artistic application was. Maybe a few pros/cons of some of the ones you've tried I'm just wonderin' what ya'll think about the various programs out there.

Thanks
-Kheldar

[Dean Welsh]

MacPaint Rocks my world. I remember The funky texture fill tool it had that you could edit the texture. And I remember I loved filling the screen with a color and then Painting with the eraser because it was a white line. (CRAZY!!!) That's about all I remember. I think I was between four or Six last time I used it.... hmmm....

are there any good Classic Mac Emulators out there that I could fire up and do myself some MacPaint work? Or is the best solution To Dust off that MacClassic I bought awhile ago just for kicks?

[Isric]

i was raised on Mac Paint. When that program was the top 'o' the line, I was using it to make stupid little pictures, look at me now ma!

[extralobe]

I'd have to agree (without sarcasm ) about MacPaint.It was just SOOooo much fun.

Nowadays, my two favourites are Painter and the GIMP. Painter has wonderful tools, but it's interface fights you at every turn. GIMP is a bit lacking in the fancy artistic tool department, but it's interface fits better than my underwear.

[swanicke]

Adobe Photoshop.

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[Project Crunch]

Photoshop is my tool of choice :b

[Anthony]

Hrmm, Painter6.0. I also like LW3d, believe it or not. I find myself "sketching" in LW Modeler. Next would be Photoshop.

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[balistic]

sentimental: Autodesk Animator 1.01

modern: Photo-Paint 8, Animation:Master, Impulse Tracker 2.14



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[Shane Caudle]

For any kind of painting, I use Painter 6, it is just way better for doing traditional looking painting. for any kind of photo editing I use PhotoShop 5.5.

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[eetu]

lightwave photoshop painter deeppaint speedrazor shake vc++ (i count shaders as artistic:) terragen (skies only)

ee.tu

[Ian]

MS PAINT ALL THE WAY!!!!!
Ian

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[spooge demon]

I got some of my old mac paint stuff on my site. I liked it a lot.

I like PS 4 now

[CyberArtist]

I started doing pixel work on a little b&w screen mac with MacPaint. Still had the MacPaint floppy up till three years ago when we threw it out too, even though my family has been using PC's for maybe 10 years or more now.

I still remember starting up the PC and finding Paintbrush, and being stunned by the ability to use 16 colors!

Now I use PhotoShop 3.0, and Painter Classic. I plan on getting Painter 6.0 as soon as I have the money (I plan on buying a car soon, so I can't make any large buys for a while). I also use RayDream 5.0.2 for simple 3d stuff, and TrueSpace 2.0 for even simpler, low poly brushes for my LD work. (RayDream, if you've ever used it, doesn't do low poly well... the lowest poly cube I ever got RayDream to export was 24 polys.)

Being an LD, I used to use DoomEd and WAD for Doom, Stoneless for Quake, QEradiant for Quake2, and I use UnrealED/UnrealED 2.0 for Unreal and UT work.



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Cyber...

[Svanur]

Macpaint, I used to draw gameboy pictures in it, pixel by pixel. I had too much time.

[Danny]

Most fond digi-paint memories I have are of my days spend in Deluxe Paint 2 and 3 on Amiga years ago. That package had an unrivalled charm.



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[ceenda]

He he, does anyone remember Degas Elite which I think was for the Amstrad CPC 464?

You got a light pen which you could use to paint on the monitor itself!

[Frost]

Started off with Pictor/GRASP, did a bit of Deluxe Paint IIe, now my fav tools are GFX2/Sunset_Design for pixeling/indexed_color and Photoshop for painting/24bit.

[BooMSticK]

PS 5.5 all the way and then some...

Can't wait for v.6.0.. sorry! I'm just a sucker for updates

,boom

[Fat Assasin]

Ahhh the good ol' days. Just the mention of Deluxe Paint brings back memories. I remember when I finally got a video card that actually supported 256 colors! The possibilities were endless.

But even before that, there was Koala Paint for the Commodore 64 which even came with a drawing tablet. Way ahead of its time.

But now I just use crappy ol' Photoshop 5.

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[Frost]

Whoohoo! Koala paint! THAT's the program I was using... (kept in thinking 'blazing paddles'... which must have been a game)... oh yes... the joystick pixeling days. =)

[Axl]

I first started drawing digital with Corel Draw 4 way back when and then moved onto Photoshop 3 and up to 5.5.

[TDSdesigns]

photoshop ofcourse...
pheraps 3d studio if i would know how to use it

[Sumaleth]

Historical;

Brilliance. This was really the only competition that Deluxe Paint ever had on the Amiga although few artists seemed to pick it up. For my money it was x10 more usable than Deluxe Pain.

Contempory;

Maya. An incredible piece of coding and design.

I use Photoshop too but there are aspects of it that annoy me so it doesn't get a vote. I think I'd probably enjoy Painter6 if they have addressed the interface issues I had with previous versions.

Sumaleth

[above]

Mario Paint of course.

[Dean Welsh]

Hey Above. Mario Paint isn't my favorite Paint program but it's definately my favorite Midi-sequencer.

[Jeezus]

mario paint was a blast. it's animation capabilities blew all competition out of the water

[iska]

Nice thread

Oric Atmos - I guess I didnt paint with this he-he
Amstrad CPC464 - Dont remember the program
Amiga 500 - Deluxe Paint
Amiga 4000 - Brilliance
First 486 - Photoshop 2.05 & 3D Studio 1
PIII - Photoshop 5.5 & Painter 6.0 & Lightwave 6.0

--iska

[Alan]

Oldschool amiga: Deluxe Paint 3
Modern amiga: ImageFX, Photogenics
PC: PS,painter

-Alan

[mantis]

Oldschool : Pencil, paper (I am too young for MacPaint and the sort)

Newskewl:
Rhino 3d - sweet modeller, you can do anything with it. Only problem is that has very bad rendering so you have to export it to another prog and then render.

Adobe Photoshop - So many options! Excellent prog, however the filter abuse is very agitating.

That is all I use for now. . .

Hopefully when I get my new system I will be using

Flash
3dsmax
Illustrator


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[el tigre]

ohhh, does anyone remember OCP art studio on the C64? it came with a mouse!!!!

Deluxe Paint 3 on the Amiga had that cool Kaleidoscope (sp) tool where it mirrored all mouse movements, that was cool, Photoshop 5 is really a step back IMHO.

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