[Affected]

I'm hoping someone knows of some obscure app for linux I have not stumbled upon in my desperate search that would have the following minimum features:

-round brushes, option to adjust hardness. Custom brushes a bonus.
-brush size slider, easily accessible please.
-Clone stamp tool or the like.
-layers and a few layer blend modes: multiply, screen, overlay mostly.
(even an app without layers would be something)
-WORKING wacom support

Umm... Yea, that's about it. I've tried Gimp and Krita and Cinepaint and Pixel, all of which fail in one way or the other. In Gimp and Cinepaint you can't adjust the brush size on the fly, only select a different size brush from your brush library. They're adding that feature though in 2.4! After what, a billion years in development?
Krita fails with brush spacing, get very nasty spacing problems even with spacing at 0. Tried bugging the devs, got no real answers as to why it does that. Pixel doesn't have wacom support at all, but it's "coming" in beta 7, which was released about a month ago. Oh wait, it wasn't, and actually version 1.0 was supposed to be out in 2005, now I hear it's coming early 2007.Which kind of came and went I think?

Anyway. What the shit? Looking at the features both the Krita and Gimp devs are putting into their apps, you'd think that an app fulfilling the simple criteria outlined above would be comparatively simple to make, but it seems there just isn't one. At all. Fuck.

I'm going to go gnaw on some wood or something.

[Tomasis]

maybe use Photoshop at wine mode

[Affected]

Tried that, it's... quirky. Also something funny with wacom, it thinks the pen end is the eraser and vice versa.

[aquamire]

Sigh. Looks like we're in the same boat Affected.

Gimp works for my needs.. but its not great. Haven't been able to find much else.

I'm not sure, but maybe Project Dogwaffle will work under Wine? Might have to try that later.
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[neff]

Try this one:

http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/
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[Affected]

For those interested, this might be worth a look. Haven't tried it myself yet, going to do so now:

http://www.goghproject.com

[Alan]

http://www.idruna.com/photogenicshdr.html

http://www.ifx.com/amazon/

[Affected]

Alan, both of those look really interesting, sadly no way to try either out on linux.

[sweetums]

So you're running Open Source OS, and you're whining becuase Open Source drawing apps just won't give you the precise control that paid for applications do?

Gee. Cry me a river.
For what you're paying for the application, you gots no room to complain.

Photoshop Elements 7 is $100 or less, USD, and with a VERY few exceptions is equivalent to, if not superior to Photoshop 7.01...

If you are so serious about your digital art, cut back on the lattes, DVD rentals, or fast food forays for a few weeks, and get Elements.

Otherwise, dabble with all the wanna-be and free apps, and kwitcherbellyachin'...
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[Impaler]

It's alway so great having you around, sweetums. No one else writes so forcefully that he or she sounds like they're spanking the whole forum at once. It's especially terrific when you completely miss the point and make mean-spirited assertions towards someone you don't even know.

Affected is practically the Finnish G.B. Shaw. He's a vegetarian who spends his free time reading philosophy and the classics, and he's one of the sharpest minds on this board. He isn't being cheap, he's looking for an alternative to Photoshop.
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[Tomasis]

Pixel image editor sounds very interesting app if it not more when it is free. It is very much alike photoshop which is very big feature or bonus.

Actually, PS 7.0 worked fine with Wacom on linux Suse Wine for me. Newer versions don't work properly due incompability of Wine time ago then. I had turn Linux down because it are no drivers for monitor calibrator (eye2) lol