Artist software

[Puscifer]

can anyone recommend a good picture creation program plz? the main thing i want is some good draw/paint tools etc and the ability to not have backgrounds to make some decent spray's for ccs, thanks.

some working torrent links would be nice, thanks.

oh i heard paintshop was good but i would like a few recommendations lol:)

[WeedWacker]

www.getpaint.net (http://www.getpaint.net)

It's not normal paint, it is a HIGHLY upgraded one.

[Teknobry]

Paintshop Pro.
Photoshop
Corel draw (9? 11? whatever the most recent one is)

But, true hero's use MSPAINT :D

[No Shelter]

Photoshop is good, takes some getting use to.

I think I heard of something called GIMP, its like photoshop?

[2mean]

Yeah GIMP is great, I use it when I'm designing frames for games as well.
http://www.gimp.org/
really simple and easy to use.

[Puscifer]

i just looked at that gimp program it looks realy good just what i'm looking for but i cant work out how to download it, could u post a link to a download page plz? thanks

ahh its ok no need i got it, thanks

[Puscifer]

ok ive got paintshop pro 7 now:) seems to be working fine, but could someone tell me how i'd create a pic with no background using it? i want to make a css spray with no background so it looks like a proper spray but cant work it out, anyone here use paintshop and can awnser my question, cheers!

[Tobold]

a quick google search came up with this (http://www.grafx-design.com/05psp.html) and this (http://www.grafx-design.com/22psp.html).
I'm not a fan of paintshop though, i'd recommend getting photoshop if you can.

[Puscifer]

lol ive got photoshop actualy haha:) adobe photoshop 7:) how would i do it using that plz?

[No Shelter]

Yeah puscifer just look for tutorials.

[Puscifer]

thanks tobold i'll give it a go

[Tobold]

You have photoshop? Then its simple, when you create a new image (ctrl+n) a dialog box will pop up, one of the options is 'Backround Contents'. Simply change from white to transparent and click OK.

Those last tutorials I found were for paintshop pro, so ignore them if you're using photoshop now.

[Puscifer]

wow thats wicked just done it, cheers man!

[Puscifer]

one more question what file type would i save it to for it to work in css?

[dontleave]

.jpg?

[A DUCK]

yeah i always use jpg too

[Puscifer]

its ok ive done it, to use a transparent background image it needs to be tga:)

[Zaku001]

Puscifier like technobry said MS paint is a serious program hey ! No sarcasim or anything im dead serious you can make some real art on ms paint lol. As for transparent backround well i have no idea how to do that :P

[Apathy]

Source uses .vtf for storing its textures. You need to convert them from .tga to .vtf using vtex.exe, part of the source sdk.

[Puscifer]

no u don't tga files work fine for transparent background sprays:)