Paint.NET

[Roland Deschain]

I was recently looking to do something fancy to a picture of the FSM for my new Venganza Steam group, when I stumbled upon Paint.NET. It's a free program comparable to both GIMP and Photoshop, although to get the power of it, you need to install plugins (nothing more taxing than to drag-and-drop .dll files into a folder). It is backed up by a forum and an extensive tutorial section. Now, i've never used anything more powerful than M$ Paint, so this is all new to me, but with experimentation i'm finding it a pleasure to use. This is my first creation. The pictures have been stolen from the web (and altered by me, as the fish was originally white), but the words are mine using fonts i found online and a little creativeness:-

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[Cardinal Fang]

I've been using Paint.NET for a while. It's a fab programme.

CF

[Roland Deschain]

I'm finding it enjoyable. As I said above, this is all new to me, so i'm still learning. There are so many different plugins for it, and it's a lot cheaper than Photoshop. I don't have any more FSM-related creations at the moment, but i'll be adding more eventually. I'm currently working on a lightsaber.

[flatlikeaflea]

What can oi doa wif IT. I can't do wif m(e)s(elf) wif MS programmed paint?

[Cardinal Fang]

I use it to save a picture as a different format (e.g. bmp to gif) without it screwing up the colours, and also if I need my pics transparent (e.g. for when I'm working on making new emoticons). I tend to use MS Gif animator to bolt pics together as animations if I need to.

CF

[Roland Deschain]

There's an animated GIF/PNG plugin for it as well. Not sure if it's as good as other programmes, but it works.

Here is my adaptation of the Trees, Midgit, Mountain, Him picture. The trees and the mountain come from photos I found on Bobby's blog, so if Bobby would like this removed, please let me know.