Dos_Box Posted November 1, 2011 Posted November 1, 2011 You can view the page at http://www.edugeek.net/content.php?r=323-An-EduGeek-Guide-to-Free-Art-Packages 1
webman Posted November 1, 2011 Posted November 1, 2011 Some people may also be interested in Pencil - free 2D drawing/animation software. 1
Dos_Box Posted November 1, 2011 Author Posted November 1, 2011 Nice. I hadn't found, or indeed heard of that one. I do notice that it has not been updated since 2009, but considering many packages I looked at (and not included) had not been updated for quite a while longer than that I shall include it in the next revision of the article sometime next year. If anyone else knows of any decent free art packages that I have not included please feel free to post them up here. No limited trial/nag-ware or unmaintained ones please. 1
CyberNerd Posted November 1, 2011 Posted November 1, 2011 GIMP 2.7 has a single window modehttp://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html 1
HodgeHi Posted November 1, 2011 Posted November 1, 2011 Theres also Seashore. When looking at software for the mac, I do tend to look for native software that doesn't use X11. There was a Native version of GIMP for OS X under development. It was quite buggy for a while and I haven't been back since to check on it's progress. 1
Arthur Posted November 1, 2011 Posted November 1, 2011 Paintbrush is another good free graphics app for the Mac. As you can see from the screenshot below, it is quite similar to Microsoft Paint. http://i.imgur.com/uDTag.png
mb2k01 Posted November 1, 2011 Posted November 1, 2011 Have to say, huge thanks to @Dos_Box for this thread - I'd not heard of a lot of those. Will look in more detail at them, but I'd be surprised if at least one wasn't put in use in both our secondary + primary schools
jinnantonnixx Posted November 3, 2011 Posted November 3, 2011 Don't forget the excellent SumoPaint. This is like Photoshop 6 through a browser. No installation required. Open app here: .: Sumo Paint 3.6 :. About: Sumo Paint | Online Image Editor 1
jinnantonnixx Posted November 3, 2011 Posted November 3, 2011 GIMP 2.7 has a single window modehttp://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html Hooray! The multi-windowed mode is a disaster in Gnome 3! The floating windows get lost in different virtual desktops.
Dos_Box Posted November 3, 2011 Author Posted November 3, 2011 Don't forget the excellent SumoPaint. This is like Photoshop 6 through a browser. No installation required. Open app here: .: Sumo Paint 3.6 :. About: Sumo Paint | Online Image Editor I had contemplated including Sumo Paint, however as you canot use it without an internet connection I felt that should not be included, as many reading this artical will come from countries where net connections are either limited, or almost non-existant and as such makes it a restrictive package only available to those lucky enough to enjoy broadband conections. 1
CAM Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 I love GIMP but have to change it as it doesn't play nice with my tablet. Given the tablet is a fairly recent Wacom that isn't a good thing.
Face-Man Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 and now for something completely different .....Psykopaint - Create and paint amazing art from photos
Dos_Box Posted November 8, 2011 Author Posted November 8, 2011 and now for something completely different .....Psykopaint - Create and paint amazing art from photos Again, it's web based cleverness, and therefore not accessable to all. I did have a play with it TBH, and found it to be a bit of a one-trick pony. Give me a decent locally installed art package any day
Arthur Posted November 9, 2011 Posted November 9, 2011 Another one to add to the list... RealWorld Paint (a.k.a. Paint.com) http://i.imgur.com/JKpGi.png
danboid Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 Another very good, open source and cross platform paint app is mypaint: MyPaint Linux users can also check out krita but when I'm only doing simple graphics editing under Linux I prefer to use mtpaint over GIMP or krita.
mac_shinobi Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Does Picasa or Irfanview not count then ??
Dos_Box Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 Does Picasa or Irfanview not count then ?? Not really as they are not strictly art creation utilities, but primarily 'bulk image management' packages. 1
maiya Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 I have just signed up and it is [COLOR="#EE82EE"][/color]amazing
MrEd Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 Thanks very much! I'll pass it on to our art department.
Grazza Posted February 28, 2012 Posted February 28, 2012 Hi, does anybody know of a more uptodate/alternate version of Tiny Paturn?
Dos_Box Posted February 28, 2012 Author Posted February 28, 2012 I've never heard of it. Link? Or perhaps it is better to post this as a new thread in the Educational Software forum.
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