woot...gotta love a good search engine.... :)

im posting this here because Orph made me... :heee:

two quick questions.....if i may

1...favorite graphics editor....PSP,or PS, or what the heck ever

2...favorite resolutionfor said proggy....the one yer most comfortable working with in a given environment

this is for my benefit, im experimenting....thanx

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

PS is much better than psp & far mroe widely used but its a f'kin overpriced program.

1024x768 is a ncie res to use for pretty much anything imo.

whispers

anyone interested in PSP7? holler at me PM

i will look into PS, i think i have it as well :razz:

i use PS7... its far more useful as a graphics editor, i would also suggest getting the "Eye Candy" plugin, its very nifty plugin for some wicked filters

i might beable to hook you up with PS7. if it can wait til friday. pm me if ya interested

and i always have a res of 1024x786, any higher and i cant read anything, any lower and i go blind within minutes...lol 

You can always find the ever so legal PS7 on kazaa if you dont have money to fork over...

The GIMP isn't bad if you can figure out how to use it without crashing.  And it's free.

On the other hand, there's always MSPaint.

Orpheus said:
whispers

anyone interested in PSP7? holler at me PM

i will look into PS, i think i have it as well :razz:

i seem to have a PS7 that works to.. am looking it over now, been a PSP fan for several years so i never noticed i had it till today..

PSP7=32 megs

PS7=160 megs

I'm not even close to being a texture god.  Still, my preference:

PSP for quick conversion/resize/recolour etc.  Also for vector graphics.

Photoshop for anything at all fancy.

LightWave for making cool 3D stuff to put in textures :biggrin:

PS7. Plus, it comes with ImageReady, which is a fairly good graphic animation tool.

Eh, PS is more powerful, but PSP is easier to use and 1/6 the price of PS.  Also it can use most PS plugins as well, including Eye Candy.   All in all, it really doesn't matter, for games both work great for making textures.  The only people who really put PS to its full potential are tabloids.  But once you learn one, it's not hard to go to the other.  PSP also comes with Animation Shop which can also edit .avi files as well as animated .gifs.  There is sort of a very compact version of Photoshop called Photoshop Elements.  It's a compact version sort of in the same manner that GMAX is a compact version of 3DSMax.

For creating basic patterns - ms_paint.

For tarting up said patterns (noise, adusting colours, brightness etc) -psp.

CJ

cool....alot of input here......thanx guys

ill tell you why im asking.....the further i get into the mindset of the texturing world, the more i find myself delegating tasks to different progs.....the "rough draft" sorta goes to PSP7, while the fine touches and specialty work goes to PS7....

did i mention occasionaly starting out with an autocad sketch dxf going to 3dsmax......its a work habit... havent gotten all the gremlins out of the complete process though, but im tenacious...  :heee:

anyway, the optimized resolution for ALL is the dilemma...i have to swap res's for each move (although this becomes cumbersome) and its really more time consuming than i think it should be.....

yer thoughts?

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

You've got to love the anti-piracy system that Adobe install in their $1000+ software :rolleyes:

Leperous said:
You've got to love the anti-piracy system that Adobe install in their $1000+ software :rolleyes:

PS7 really that much lep?

its nicer looking than PSP7 is, but i, as an ignorant user, couldn't see it being worth that much..

still i seem to have a functional copy :razz:

The way I've always viewed it is that a program like Photoshop is actually marketed as a business tool. Companies will pay that much for a program as versatile as Photoshop. Therefore, Adobe adjusts the price so that businesses will spend good money on it, and not on personal editions. While this means over-all personal purchase of the product goes down, the money coming in from commercial use of the product more than makes up for it. Many of the best 3-D graphics programs work the same way - their target consumer base is not personal use.

I use photoshop for layer editing because it's more complex than paintshop pro. BUT I find that PSP is better for optimizing and resizing tasks, I use both programs hand in hand. As a combo they do wonders.