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Posted by kdhunt2000 on Wed Jan 19th at 4:24am 2005

well, I really need to make my own textures in game but I cant afford adobe photoshop seeing as it is $700!!!!! Is there any other tool I can use that can turn things into targa with the seethrough background?



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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jan 19th at 4:28am 2005

Sure, check out the GIMP, its a freeware graphics program that does everything you'll need most likely. I've never used it, but I've heard plenty of people singing its praises...

http://www.gimp.org/
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Posted by satchmo on Wed Jan 19th at 4:59am 2005

What about Paint Shop Pro? It's very cheap with rebate (US $35).

I've tried GIMP, but you need to download a lot of code libraries for it to work. It's a big hassle.

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Posted by omnix32 on Wed Jan 19th at 6:09am 2005

Azureus works pretty good.





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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Jan 19th at 6:24am 2005

adobe has a small version called Photoshop Elements. This is a scaled-down version of Photoshop. [addsig]



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Posted by SmeTskE on Wed Jan 19th at 8:11am 2005

(*cough* NO *cough* - Lep.)



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Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 19th at 8:35am 2005

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What about Paint Shop Pro? It's very cheap with rebate (US $35).
I've tried GIMP, but you need to download a lot of code libraries for it to work. It's a big hassle.


No you don't. You have to download a gif plug-in because the format is owned by another company. There's nothing terrible about downloading the frame work and then the application that goes on the framework.

I'd suggest GIMP as well. It's the only program here that you can legally get for free. It also has the same functionality as PhotoShop, you just have to learn how to use it.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html [addsig]



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Posted by Goldstandard on Wed Jan 19th at 10:07am 2005

Thanks for asking the question kdhunt for asking your question, and thank you reno for mentioning gimp, I think I will find this useful as well. (you can't beat free!)




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Posted by TeamWolfguard on Wed Jan 19th at 3:07pm 2005

yeah. Gimp is great but its a bit hard to use if you are used to PSP or Photochop. Once you get the hang of it you cant beat it at 3x the price.





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Posted by DrFrag on Thu Jan 20th at 3:28pm 2005

I use Paint Shop Pro, it's very good. Just a warning though: the uncompressed TGA files saved by PSP 8 are not compatible with VTEX. They're slightly bigger that what other programmes save them as, so I suspect Jasc are breaking spec on these files. PSP 6 doesn't have this problem.





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Posted by Dred_furst on Thu Jan 20th at 4:55pm 2005

lol, i think someone tried ware()z... (thats to stop linkings)

but i must admit photoshop does things very well, and ive had a little exp with psp 8 but i still prefer adobe's option.

the gimp, from what ive seen, is excellent!
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