Best graphics applications?

[hyperextreme]

I have:
Photoshop 5.5
Illustrator 9.0
Flash 5
Dreamweaver 4
And I just got Fireworks 4 so I'll see how that goes!!

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[aspade]

Something that everyone's missed.

These are my favorite combination:
-Bryce 3D
-PS6.0
-Poser

Poser is really nice program for characters. You outta try it. : )

Originally posted by retrofade:
I'm sure that this question has been asked before, but I really didn't feel like going and searching through all the threads to find the answer...guess I'm just lazy. But anyway, like the topic says...I'm looking for the best graphic programs/applications. I already have Bryce 5 and Adobe Photoshop 6.0. I'm working on web page graphics and some other free-lance graphics jobs for local bands in my area. So if anyone knows of some other good graphics applications I would greatly appriciate some input. Also, I'm looking for good Photoshop plug-ins as well. Price really isn't much of an object, as I have a whole lot of money to burn at the moment. =) That's a nice feeling for once. Thanks in advance.

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[kid A]

Originally posted by aspade:

Poser is really nice program for characters. You outta try it. : )

As in a font creation program?

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[retrofade]

Actually...Poser is a program for characters as in people, etc. Its actually pretty cool...one of my friends has it. I'm thinking about picking it up...although I'm not quite sure what use I'd have for it though.

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[aspade]

Yes. Poser is for creating people or animals or whatever. I love this program. You can start off with naked human character and progressively add on clothes. You can have them animated. What I usually do (I'm sorry but I'm not good at this program. It's barely been a week since I've started to use it) is I'd make a human character then export that character into 3D Object. Then I'd use Bryce3D to import that object, and do lots of things with it. Like I said, I'm not an expert so this is all I can do for now. I am sure that you can have unlimited possibilities with this program, it just takes time to discover it. hehe. Anyways, give it a shot and I'm sure you'll like it.

Originally posted by retrofade:
Actually...Poser is a program for characters as in people, etc. Its actually pretty cool...one of my friends has it. I'm thinking about picking it up...although I'm not quite sure what use I'd have for it though.

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ViewSonic P95F

[kid A]

Ah!

Any idea whereabouts in price such a wonderous application lieth? And whereth to purchase or d/l?

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[aspade]

Originally posted by kid A:
Ah!
Any idea whereabouts in price such a wonderous application lieth? And whereth to purchase or d/l?

Poser is originally made by MetaCreations but apparently now it is being distributed by Curious Labs ( http://www.curiouslabs.com/ ). You can go to their site and read a heck a lot about it. You can even d/l a demo!

Have fun!

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[retrofade]

Originally posted by aspade:
Poser is originally made by MetaCreations but apparently now it is being distributed by Curious Labs ( http://www.curiouslabs.com/ ). You can go to their site and read a heck a lot about it. You can even d/l a demo!

I'm not quite sure if $219 is worth it...but then again, I've never really used it that much...so who knows.

Originally posted by kid A:
Ah!
Any idea whereabouts in price such a wonderous application lieth? And whereth to purchase or d/l?

Have you slipped into Shakesperean English kid A? Fun stuff.




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[kid A]

Originally posted by retrofade:
Have you slipped into Shakesperean English kid A? Fun stuff.

Yeah, don't you think d/l fitted quite nicely in there?


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[Scuttle]

Eye candy for photoshop is pretty good. I use PS 5 with eye candy and am very impressed, i also have bryce 5 and Fireworks with dreamweaver 4. They are all very good, and i'm downloaing poser now to have a play.

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[spookshow]

No one has mentioned The Gimp?!?!
http://www.gimp.org/

The windows version works GREAT! Tis free and will give Photoshop a run for its money!

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[harding802]

downloading gimp right now... should be interesting eh?

[spookshow]

Originally posted by harding802:
downloading gimp right now... should be interesting eh?

Before I used The Gimp I didn't have much experience with graphics applications so it took a while to figure things out. If you have used Photoshop before you should catch on pretty quickly. Also check out the TONS of filters and scrips you can find...

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[retrofade]

Originally posted by kid A:
Yeah, don't you think d/l fitted quite nicely in there?

'Twas beautiful...




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