Episode 8 – Starving Artists
07-23-2010 in Tightwad Tech by admin
Synopsis:
In this episode Mark and Shawn discuss various tools and online resources for creating and editing digital artwork.
Links:
The GIMP – A full-featured, cross-platform digital image editor
Aviary.com – A suite of online tools for the creating of digital artwork
Picasa – A free photo editing and organization tool
DrawIt Lite – A Mac-based vector drawing tool
Picnik – An online photo editing tool
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Teacher Tip of the Week – Open Clip Art Gallery
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I have been using sumopaint.com at my school which is a full web2.0 alternative to Photoshop. It can also do many of the same things. Text is kind of lacking.
If you are interested in the android for schools take a look at this screencast I created: http://www.askbj.net/cms/node/458
-bj
How about Inkscape for free Windows and Linux vector-based drawing?
@BJ I've heard of Sumopaint, but never spent more than a few seconds playing with it. I may have to looking into it more deeply now.
@Jeff I like Inkscape, but I never considered it a graphics editor. It's really more of a page layout tool, in the same vein of Adobe Pagemaker, right? What sort of vector creation/editing tools does it have available?
-Mark
Hate Photoshop. Love Gimp. LOVE Fireworks.
@The Tightwad
Inkscape is a straight up vector editor, it would be an Adobe Illustrator competitor. Scribus is a good open source page layout tool.