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What are good programs to make Album covers for your characters
What programs do you use or recommend because I hate the album covers I make. |
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GirlSpice wrote:I use Photoshop CS4. Do you have to pay for it, because I'd only use it for album covers for this game. |
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Yeah you have to pay, it's really expensive on some sites as well (Amazon has it down for £579.99) but you don't really think I paid that do you? :P |
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GirlSpice wrote:Yeah you have to pay, it's really expensive on some sites as well (Amazon has it down for £579.99) but you don't really think I paid that do you? :P I don't think anyone would have paid that. I'll have to find a different way to make album covers. I don't really want to spend money on it though because I'd only use it for this game. At the moment I use PhotoFiltre but it's not great. |
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C4AJoh wrote:GirlSpice wrote:Yeah you have to pay, it's really expensive on some sites as well (Amazon has it down for £579.99) but you don't really think I paid that do you? :P I don't think anyone would have paid that. I'll have to find a different way to make album covers. I don't really want to spend money on it though because I'd only use it for this game. At the moment I use PhotoFiltre but it's not great. Yeah, I used to use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8/9 which were both pretty decent. I'm sure you could find a link somewhere to get it for free or even just a trial to see if you like it or not, I bought it for only £10 on eBay but I guess it depends if you're willing to spend or not. |
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GirlSpice wrote:C4AJoh wrote:GirlSpice wrote:Yeah you have to pay, it's really expensive on some sites as well (Amazon has it down for £579.99) but you don't really think I paid that do you? :P I don't think anyone would have paid that. I'll have to find a different way to make album covers. I don't really want to spend money on it though because I'd only use it for this game. At the moment I use PhotoFiltre but it's not great. Yeah, I used to use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8/9 which were both pretty decent. I'm sure you could find a link somewhere to get it for free or even just a trial to see if you like it or not, I bought it for only £10 on eBay but I guess it depends if you're willing to spend or not. I'll fiddle around on photofiltre and see if I can get anything good out of it first. |
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C4AJoh wrote:GirlSpice wrote:C4AJoh wrote:GirlSpice wrote:Yeah you have to pay, it's really expensive on some sites as well (Amazon has it down for £579.99) but you don't really think I paid that do you? :P I don't think anyone would have paid that. I'll have to find a different way to make album covers. I don't really want to spend money on it though because I'd only use it for this game. At the moment I use PhotoFiltre but it's not great. Yeah, I used to use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8/9 which were both pretty decent. I'm sure you could find a link somewhere to get it for free or even just a trial to see if you like it or not, I bought it for only £10 on eBay but I guess it depends if you're willing to spend or not. I'll fiddle around on photofiltre and see if I can get anything good out of it first. I found Photofiltre quite good actually |
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Paradox wrote:C4AJoh wrote:GirlSpice wrote:C4AJoh wrote:GirlSpice wrote:Yeah you have to pay, it's really expensive on some sites as well (Amazon has it down for £579.99) but you don't really think I paid that do you? :P I don't think anyone would have paid that. I'll have to find a different way to make album covers. I don't really want to spend money on it though because I'd only use it for this game. At the moment I use PhotoFiltre but it's not great. Yeah, I used to use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8/9 which were both pretty decent. I'm sure you could find a link somewhere to get it for free or even just a trial to see if you like it or not, I bought it for only £10 on eBay but I guess it depends if you're willing to spend or not. I'll fiddle around on photofiltre and see if I can get anything good out of it first. I found Photofiltre quite good actually I did have a fiddle around on Photofiltre and it's a bit better than I first thought, so i will probably just continue using that. your right it is quite good but it's not one of the better one's. |
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I use GIMP. It's free and you can do just about anything with it if you just do a couple tutorials with it to figure out what you're doing. |
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Personally I love GIMP, it's free, and real easy to use. Basically a scaled down version of photoshop, fantastic stuff.
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C4AJoh wrote:GirlSpice wrote:Yeah you have to pay, it's really expensive on some sites as well (Amazon has it down for £579.99) but you don't really think I paid that do you? :P I don't think anyone would have paid that. I'll have to find a different way to make album covers. I don't really want to spend money on it though because I'd only use it for this game. At the moment I use PhotoFiltre but it's not great. Paul owns a version of Photoshop, CS2 I think. Legally. He got it at student discount price though, and it came with stuff like Dreamweaver as well. Might have been about £200? |
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people actually buy copies of photoshop?! |
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erich hess wrote:people actually buy copies of photoshop?! Yes, not everyone is comfortable with piracy. |
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PhotoShop came free with my dads mac! lol Version CS or something like that :/ |
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Yes, I have Photoshop CS3 legally, alongside Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat. Got a student license a couple years back.
The thing with Photoshop is that most people who don't have it legally don't really know what they're doing with it anyway. Not that I'm any kind of genius wizzkid or anything, but Photoshop is only as good as the person using it. I've seen people do fancy looking things with lesser programs, though for the most part, Photoshop really is the baseline standard. To do anything particularly advanced you need at least: layers, blending options, advanced text tools, and extensive colour correction options. It also helps to have things like clone stamp, and both brush (raster) and pen (vector) drawing tools. |
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GIMP & paint.
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forkboy wrote:erich hess wrote:people actually buy copies of photoshop?! Yes, not everyone is comfortable with piracy. well,i was already going to hell before getting a copy that fell off a truck. |
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