RE: Graphically speaking

Subject: RE: Graphically speaking
From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>
To: "voxwoman" <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Stuart Burnfield" <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:24:12 -0600

McClelland & Cohen's Real World Adobe Illustrator is a great resource,
too.

As for The Gimp, if you're comfortable with PhotoShop, it's just not
that hard. It does have a learning curve. Certainly, it's more
complicated than Paint.NET, but it's much more robust, too. I've used
both -- just depends what your needs are. Cropping, sizing, and framing,
for instance, Paint.NET is plenty. Layers, cut-outs, any significant
post-processing The Gimp is a much better tool.

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Behalf Of voxwoman
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:19 AM
To: Stuart Burnfield
Cc: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Graphically speaking

I am now in love with Adobe Illustrator for vector art. It can do almost
as much as Photoshop, and honestly, for rendering drawings from scratch,
I find Illustrator much easier to use than a bitmap tool like Photoshop.
I wouldn't attempt Illustrator without working through the Classroom In
A Book, however. (and a drawing tablet doesn't hurt, either).
-Wendy

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Stuart Burnfield
<slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>wrote:

> If the question is "What's the best free tool to do X?" a great place
> to look for the answer is the Tech Support Alert site. The page for
> graphics tools is here:
> http://www.techsupportalert.com/pc/image-tools.html
>
> PAINT.NET: I used it two contracts ago and was impressed. The help was

> a little skimpy but I was able to figure out how to do everything I
> needed to do.
>
> The GIMP: I really wanted it to be the right tool for me, but I found
> it just too hard to find out how to do things that seemed as though
> they should be simple.
>
> Good luck. Let us know if you find a good vector tool.
>
> Stuart
>
>
> Kevin McLauchlan said:
> I was browsing for a free Visio substitute (with little luck - none
> seem to handle Visio's native format files) and stumbled across a few
> other things.
>
> For non-vector graphic stuff, has anybody had any joy from Paint.NET?
> The GIMP is kinda overkill for the type of bitmap/photo/image tickling

> that I usually perform, so I'm looking for lightweight alternatives
> and that one was mentioned.
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Re: Graphically speaking: From: Stuart Burnfield
Re: Graphically speaking: From: voxwoman

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