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[Valerunner]

What do you use when editing?

I use Photofiltre, and iTunes to an extent(I can't make anything without music).

It's pretty damn easy when recoloring, and it has 1/10 to 16x zoom and gradient tools for making color charts, the text box can be edited and you can add the hex code to any color to use online.

It's no Photoshop but it's free.

 

[Strawberry]

MSPaint :P

 

[Mewtwo]

I use Paint, but I want to understand my GIMP to make cool things :/

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

Due to my year-and-a-half long exposure to MSPaint, I am the most fluent in that program. I highly prefer Paint.NET.

 

[Zulo]

I only use paint, except sometimes on pixelovers.

What's the difference between ms paint and paint.net?

 

[surskitty]

GIMP. Only thing I bother with as it's both free and considerably more useful than MSPaint or Paint.NET or a bunch of other things. :/

 

[hopeandjoy]

Paint, GIMP, and YouTube/iTunes. Because I don't do anything without music.

 

[Pikachu]

I use paint because it is the easiest.

 

[surskitty]

I use paint because it is the easiest.

... but it isn't.

 

[Garfield Grunt]

MS Paint for spriting.
Paint.net for sprite comics
GIMP for random backgrounds/banners

 

[Zulo]

... but it isn't.

I think he means easiest to learn. GIMP can be difficult.

 

[Valerunner]

I think he means easiest to learn. GIMP can be difficult.

Trust me, Paint is the most painful tool for spriting.

 

[surskitty]

Paint is a pain in the ass to learn well enough to have any idea how to do much of anything.

It's pretty useless.

 

[Zulo]

Useless? The best sprites I've seen have been made in paint. Besides, free is pretty useful. ;P

 

[surskitty]

GIMP is free, too, you know.

spending time learning how to do things that are easy in normal programs and broadly doable in paint with effort is a waste of time

 

[Mewtwo]

I have GIMP, but I don't yet understand how to do things like the layers and the what-not!

 

[surskitty]

pssssst help files

 

[Nope]

Paint. Yes it is simple, but easiest for me to use <.<

And photoshop for banners and avatars and stuff.

 

[Valerunner]

Paint. Yes it is simple, but easiest for me to use <.<

And photoshop for banners and avatars and stuff.

You're better off with Photoshop with spriting; turn anti-aliasing off.

 

[Nope]

Yeah, yeah I know. But still, I'm used to Paint, and I prefer it for spriting. You can't change my opinion.