what are some good free picture-editing software that is compatible with cintiq

[Daswiruch]

I want a bit of both like I have with paint.net now, just easier to use

get both gimp and a painting program
gimp's initially hard to use but if you learn it, it pays off well

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[Insert Name Here²]

Paint tool sai for drawing, paint.net / gimp for editing. Or get Photoshop somehow and that'll work fine for both

[Nonnel]

oh i didn't realize he specified "free"

[otto-san]

yes it is...?

iirc some older version of it was made free, but it isn't obvious on the sai website https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/

in any case, at this point i would 100% recommend clip studio paint if you want paid illustration software because it is Good. and i use it for p much everything, editing and all. only downside i can think of is that it hasn't been popular for as long, so there's more knowledge about how to work sai effectively

[Verification]

Paint tool sai for drawing

Correct, but it can also be used for minor image editing and correcting. Kinda like paint.net but more drawing focused.

Also,

[Køtt]

funny, i have SAI and it was free forever. now i'm unsure of my wallet... (not that i pirated it or anything)

get both gimp and a painting program
gimp's initially hard to use but if you learn it, it pays off well

soOOOoo do this please

[Tactical Nuke]

I've basically been sold on the gimp/painting software thing but idk what the painting software is gonna be

I'm thinking clip studio paint but it sounds like it costs money

this'd be so much easier if they still sold PhotoShop for lifetime

[otto-san]

csp is paid, tho there is a free version. not sure what kinds of specific restrictions there are outside of these


before i got csp, i used firealpaca, and it was pretty easy to work with, but krita seems like a more feature-packed environment. i have a friend that used to use medibang paint too, but i don't know anything about it aside from that it worked for them

[Steve5451²]

on a scale of complexity where does gimp place and does that mean that it has more value

from easy to hard: Paint.NET, Photoshop, GIMP
from least to most powerful: Paint.NET, GIMP, Photoshop

so basically paint.net is all around ez but not that powerful.

if you can overcome the steep learning curve of GIMP you'll find that, when it comes to image editing, it's just as capable as photoshop
for example, here's a "photoshop" i did using GIMP

GIMP doesn't make a very good software for drawing. It does okay, but you'll want to find specialized software for that. What makes photoshop so expensive and powerful is that it covers just about everything an artist needs. image processing, drawing, vectors, 3D modeling, and editing. GIMP is strictly an image editor and it does that well.

[Drydess]

gimp is a free photoshop and is very useful in editing images or photos

[Tactical Nuke]

does gimp have the sort of lasso thing that photoshop has where you can drag it across objects and it will highlight things you may want to cut out

so

say I have a pic of a guy in front of a thing, and I want just the guy
I would drag it across the guy and it would fit directly to the guy with nothing important left out

[otto-san]

does gimp have the sort of lasso thing that photoshop has where you can drag it across objects and it will highlight things you may want to cut out

so

say I have a pic of a guy in front of a thing, and I want just the guy
I would drag it across the guy and it would fit directly to the guy with nothing important left out

pretty sure any modern image processing software is gonna have that

[Tactical Nuke]

paint.net doesn't I don't think

I'm not talking about magic wand, I'm talking about photoshop's thing that's like 100x better

[ßlöükfáce]

paintstorm studio for drawing/painting
its like 20 bucks and it's forgeten gr8

i bought an extra license a long time ago so if you really dont want to buy it you can have that

and i am a cintiq user so i use paintstorm on it all the time

[Tactical Nuke]

paintstorm studio for drawing/painting
its like 20 bucks and it's forgeten gr8

i bought an extra license a long time ago so if you really dont want to buy it you can have that

and i am a cintiq user so i use paintstorm on it all the time

I'm kinda suspicious it's 20$ for a lifetime license considering the pricing of literally every other software is within the hundreds