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Paint Programs - Your Preferences

Photoshop CS4 for me.

I started out using PSP but plunked down the cash for PS thinking it would be better. At 1st I hated it but having skin in the game I stuck with it & now I wouldn't give up Photoshop for anything.

They all do the trick, some do certain aspects better/easier than others. it largely comes down to personal preference.
 
Bjoern said:
You mean Inkscape, right?

My go-to tool for everything that might require vectors. A bit clumsy to use, but gets the job done.
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Yeah, that's it! lol. it didn't sound write when I typed it, I should have done a search for it, but I was in a hurry. :)
 
Workaround.......

TARPSBird said:
I've been using Jasc (now Corel) PaintShop Pro 7 ever since I got into painting and detailing planes in 2004. It's a good program but... it won't open Adobe PhotoShop .psd files which seem to be the standard file format for most airplanes' paint kits nowadays. .......
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As I am a PSP7 user as well I know the problem. A work around is to open the files with Gimp and to save them in psp format. This way I have been able to convert all files I have encountered so far.
I have considered to switch to Gimp as it is a very sophisticated program, but so far I didn't find to time to get as familiar with Gimp as I am with psp7.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Not that I'm an expert painter, terrible in fact, but I switch between GIMP and paint.net. There's also a plugin for paint.net that opens and allows editing of PSD files. I seem to prefer it to GIMP. Maybe that's why I'm terrible at it. :)
 
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