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    free painting programs

    anyone know of any good ones? i heard there is a free learning addition of flash can anyone post a link to it? thanks

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    Well, most of the major programs out there have free downloadable trial versions of their software and then you've got a whole barrage of other freeware & shareware digital imaging/coloring/painting programs out there to choose from. As to what they all are, I have no ideas off the top of my head.

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    Swear to god; we should really sticky a list of free programs...

    Try GIMP: But its crappy for anything but editing.
    Try OpenCanvas: Really good simple painting program; search here for links.
    Try ArtRage: Kinda cool paint "simulation" program.
    Try MicroSoft Acrylic: In beta so its "free" but I hear it's overglorified MSPaint.

    Try a Demo: Painter and PhotoShop have free demos.

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    open canvas is probably the best, art rage is quite fun too.

    theres inkscape, its a free vector based program, i havent tried it yet so i dont know what its like. the link to the site is here

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    is open canvas free?

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    Well, unoffically (as in I dunno) the older versions are free but the new ones are not. There is a thread here with links.

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    head into irc, and hit: !oc

    and you will be linked to the app, its comparitivly tiny in size. Oh and erm, it will only work on windows not mac.
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    i couldn't find it could you post it.

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    Here's GIMPshop. The GUI kinda sucks, it's not economical or intuitive. Okay for editing I guess. It has many PhotoShop features, but they're not as polished.



    compare to PS 5.5 GUI

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