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Fer-Snazzle
I am not yet dead!!! :D
Furretsu
World of Glass
How is making your life easier rude?
Dewgong
babababa
It isn't. I agree, stop using paint. :[
Furretsu
World of Glass
It's not like there's a huge amount of users very familiar with it on this very forum or a documentation or anything. Nope!
All you need is a 1px pencil tool and a color palette!
Grinning Calamity
HATES YO FACE!
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Furretsu
World of Glass
Yes. For every overpriced commercial software (Photoshop) there is always at least one free open-source alternative that is better in every way.
jesus what the fuckultraviolet said:
there are so many things wrong with that post I don't know where to start
Erika
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Paint is fine for spriting, especially if you're doing it to get your mind off something, or just for general fun. Of course, you can use a tool that may seem complicated at first to make it "easier," but the thing is, if you're used to using a tool, such as a Paint, to do your spriting work, then what's the problem?
I use Paint for my sprite work, it's quick, easy, I don't have to worry about the all the layer options. Spriting is simple, paint is simple. Using Paint isn't "wrong," if you're doing it for just general sprite work. Of course, you can use other programs, but all "new" programs require some kind of learning curve, and if I already know how to pull off an effect without the tool, regardless if it's faster with the tool, I'm most likely going to take the longer way, the way I learned how to do it. Spriting isn't our job, so it's not like we all have deadlines, and have to get something done on a specific date anyways.
There isn't a point to bullying a member to stop using a tool that he or she is used to using. You'll just come off looking like an ass anyways. Besides, I've never got a complaint for my work because I've used "Paint," and I've never heard of people telling me that I was "wrong" for doing so. It's perfectly fine.
I use Paint for my sprite work, it's quick, easy, I don't have to worry about the all the layer options. Spriting is simple, paint is simple. Using Paint isn't "wrong," if you're doing it for just general sprite work. Of course, you can use other programs, but all "new" programs require some kind of learning curve, and if I already know how to pull off an effect without the tool, regardless if it's faster with the tool, I'm most likely going to take the longer way, the way I learned how to do it. Spriting isn't our job, so it's not like we all have deadlines, and have to get something done on a specific date anyways.
There isn't a point to bullying a member to stop using a tool that he or she is used to using. You'll just come off looking like an ass anyways. Besides, I've never got a complaint for my work because I've used "Paint," and I've never heard of people telling me that I was "wrong" for doing so. It's perfectly fine.
surskitty
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Although I haven't been spriting much lately, I find layers and layer masks considerably useful, primarily if I'm trying to get the right shade of [colour]. It's also good for keeping the outlines separate from everything else. Sure, you can sprite in MSPaint, but I don't really see why you would. I was spriting mainly in MSPaint for a while, mainly because I didn't know how to use GIMP, but it's easier to... not.
Also you can actually keep your palette available between sessions without having it on your sprite.
Also you can actually keep your palette available between sessions without having it on your sprite.
Charizard Morph
has doomed us all.
Yarnchu
Yarn is comfy and easy to wear
If you are saving the sprites, then the colors get slightly altered, at least for me. I don't know why. Like everyone said, print screening is your best friend when that black box appears.
And, whats wrong with paint? I have gimp (downloaded it to make animations) and yet, complexicated things aren't just my thing. Paint is easy to work with, and is free to boot. Also, I couldn't figure out the animation thing, even with guides. So I downloaded a simpler program that gets the job done. And, uh,screw transparency I don't need special tools.
And, whats wrong with paint? I have gimp (downloaded it to make animations) and yet, complexicated things aren't just my thing. Paint is easy to work with, and is free to boot. Also, I couldn't figure out the animation thing, even with guides. So I downloaded a simpler program that gets the job done. And, uh,
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Eevee
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If only you knew of a forum with artist sections and people very familiar with using GIMP
GIMP is beyond free
Fingerpaints also have everything you need to make beautiful works of art, and a pen and paper is all you need for most calculations. Yet we went ahead and invented, you know, better technology.
Paint doesn't have layers.
Paint doesn't have anything resembling a sane color picker.
Paint doesn't support indexing.
Paint doesn't support opacity.
Paint's resizing sucks.
Paint's undo history sucks.
Paint doesn't let you pick any save options at all. It is, in fact, impossible to create an indexed PNG with Paint.
Paint doesn't have selection masks or layer masks.
Paint doesn't have brushes.
I need not go on.
You could go learn to use this tools and have remarkably more options available to you, or you could continue bashing rocks together, using some multitude of ancillary programs to make up for your editor's pathetic toolset, and expecting everyone else to figure out how to help you when you can't do something.
er, no
GIMP doesn't even support CMYK or 16-bit color; it is all you need if you are doing casual image/sprite/banner/photo editing, but if you are a professional it is lacking a few semi-critical things
2.6 is supposed to be better in this regard though
the problem is when people come ask for help, reveal they are using Paint and whatever other hodge-podge of crap to work around it, and then reject simple solutions that are not possible in Paint
also one of my hats is geek pedant. I am prometheus here to give you the gift of fire and all I get is "no thanks sitting on stuff until it's warm is working out fine". is it really hard to understand why gross inefficiency would annoy the everloving piss out of someone whose entire life is devoted to fighting it
you don't have to worry about layer options in any editor if you don't want to
yes I am familiar with this
it is a common rule of UI
it is also really stupid
you are wrong
there
also here is a complaint: your sprites are all wasting space and bandwidth
GIMP is fairly intuitive imo and more free than Paint
admittedly GIMP is not designed for animation and its implementation is a total hack but it is not that difficult; just save an image with multiple layers as a gif and it will ask what you want to do
and holy christ people if you have problems with something I am advocating then ask