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10-19-2008, 09:15 PM
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| Champion of justice  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Puerto Rico Age: 22
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Don't worry if you can't afford to buy a copy of Photoshop. Even the poorest digital artist has access to quality software free of charge! Here's a list of free tools for your digital work! All of these tools are free and legal. No pirated software is listed here. Many of these titles have a fairly significant learning curve. Many also have excellent tutorials and communities to help you maximize their capabilities. Some programs are listed in multiple sections based on functionality so artists can easily find what they are looking for. I tried to pick the best of the best. I did leave a few out I felt weren’t quite worthy and it’s entirely possible that I missed something I was unaware of. Feel free to add to the list. NO PIRATED SOFTWARE PLEASE Featured Software GIMP GIMP is a feature-rich image manipulation software; the poor-man's alternative to Photoshop. Use GIMP for layers, masking, photo manipulation, image generation, and more! Open source code makes this program entirely free to use. Visit the forums and view the tutorials to maximize GIMP's capabilities. MAYA Maya is the powerful 3D digital arts studio used by the pros. You can have this incredible and super expensive 3D image and animation studio in your hands at no cost to you! Maya Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is a special version of Autodesk Maya software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use. This is no dinky trial. Nearly all of the superb features of the commercial version are included. The learning curve is high, but the results are well worth the effort. Ubuntu is a free computer operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux.Ubuntu is free and open source, meaning that not only is it distributed without charge, it may also be freely improved upon.Ubuntu focuses on usability,including the widespread use of the sudo tool for administrative tasks.The Ubiquity installer allows installing Ubuntu to the hard disk from within the Live CD environment without the need for restarting the computer prior to installation. Ubuntu also emphasizes accessibility and internationalization, to reach as many people as possible. Beginning with 5.04, UTF-8 became the default character encoding.The default appearance of the user interface in the current version is called Human and is characterized by shades of brown and orange. IMAGE GENERATION AND MANIPULATION GIMP GIMP is a feature-rich image manipulation software; the poor-man's alternative to Photoshop. Use GIMP for layers, masking, photo manipulation, image generation, and more! Open source code makes this program entirely free to use. Visit the forums and view the tutorials to maximize GIMP's capabilities. SAI SAI is a Japanese graphics editor developed by Systemax. Check for a youtube vid using this software and HEREfor the Japanese site. PIXIA Originally a Japanese program, Pixia has gained an intense following and is now available in ten languages. Paint, create, and manipulate. Create your beautiful digital art with this unique tool. FREESERIFSOFTWARE FreeSerifSoftware includes a variety of programs for image generation and manipulation, all free. PhotoPlus, DrawPlus, and 3DPlus are all found at this link for your digital artistry. RENDERA A powerful painting program offering a variety of tools for the digital painter. DOGWAFFLE Dogwaffle is a free painting and animation program for people who love to draw, sketch, animate and paint. ARTWEAVER Artweaver is a simple and free digital painting studio. ARTRAGE ArtRage is a simple painting program offering eight painting tools for your creative design. The paid version contains a few more tools and a number of additional features for $25. Image sizes and number of prints are not limited in the free version. FACEONBODY FaceOnBody is a program designed solely for mixing and matching faces and bodies. 3D Graphics MAYA Maya is the powerful 3D digital arts studio used by the pros. You can have this incredible and super expensive 3D image and animation studio in your hands at no cost to you! Maya Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is a special version of Autodesk Maya software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use. This is no dinky trial. Nearly all of the superb features of the commercial version are included. The learning curve is high, but the results are well worth the effort. BLENDER 3D Blender 3D is an incredible free tool for creating three dimensional models, images, and animations. WINGS 3D Wings 3D is a powerful subdivision modeler for building static three dimensional images. SKETCHUP Want some sketchup on that digital burger? Your conceptual designs pop in full 3D with this simple tool from Google. POV-RAY POV-Ray is a powerful three dimensional graphics tool free for your digital easel. You can also make use of Arbaro, the tree generator for POV-ray.CLICK HERE FOR ARBARO OGRE3D Quickly becoming one of the most popular three dimensional graphics generator, Ogre is powerful and free. GENESIS3D Genesis3D is a real-time 3D rendering environment for all of your real-time 3D needs. With a large online community, free online forums, and many links to Genesis3D developers...you will find all the support and tools that you need to begin developing world-class, real-time 3D applications today. 3DCANVAS 3D Canvas is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling. FREESERIFSOFTWARE FreeSerifSoftware includes a variety of programs for image generation and manipulation, all free. PhotoPlus, DrawPlus, and 3DPlus are all found at this link for your digital artistry. More software in the next post ....
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10-19-2008, 09:16 PM
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| Champion of justice Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Puerto Rico Age: 22
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Rep Power: 141 | ANIMATION BLENDER 3D Blender 3D is an incredible free tool for creating three dimensional models, images, and animations. DOGWAFFLE Dogwaffle is a free painting and animation program for people who love to draw, sketch, animate and paint. 3DCANVAS 3D Canvas is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling. ANIM8OR Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation program that includes the bare essentials for creating 3D animations simply. MONKEYJAM A freeware digital pencil test animation program for Windows. It also has additional features that can be used for stop motion animation, clay animation, and more. VECTOR DRAWING INKSCAPE Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. FREESERIFSOFTWARE FreeSerifSoftware includes a variety of programs for image generation and manipulation, all free. PhotoPlus, DrawPlus, and 3DPlus are all found at this link for your digital artistry. DrawPlus is vector capable. Texture Graphics TEXTURE PROCESSOR Texture Processor is the unique program for creating various textures. Fractals APOPHYSIS Apophysis is a freeware fractal flame editor for Windows. DOUBLE FRACTAL Double Fractal is a program that creates fast and easily high complex images. No specific knowledge is needed to use this program, it is a program that can be run just for fun! Other While not directly related to digital art, these titles are useful to the digital artist and, like the rest of the list, are free. Free is good. Anti-virus i have been using panda internet security for almost a year but its not a free program but ill put a list of ones that are useful and free. AVAST! 4HOME ANIT-VIRUS It is the opinion of the makers of avast! that the best way to protect their big paying customers is to prevent viruses from spreading at the individual level. There is no better way to accomplish that than to offer your product free to the little guy while charging corporations and organizations the big bucks. This is no piddly open-source hackjob; avast! is the real deal and the best thing going to keep your computer virus free! AVG FREE Working under a similar philosophy as the avast! people, AVG is a fully loaded anti-virus title free to the little guy. You can get a few more bells and whistles with the paid version, but the free version essentially does the same job as far as anti-virus protection goes. While you're there, pick up their free anti-spyware program and their free anti-rootkit program to maximize the health of your computer. PDF converter The best way to share documents and similar files that may change appearance in different programs or even different versions of the same program is to share them as pdf files. PDF files are WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) and you'll never lose information or have your friends see trash where you made treasure when you share your precious documents in pdf format. Write pristine tutorials with all of your illustrations intact no matter who opens it! PDF995 Don't bother paying hundreds of dollars for Adobe's converting software, you can get it all that functionality free. It installs as a printer driver, so anytime you want to save an item as a pdf file, it's as simple as clicking your print button, which will bring up a save box so you can title your new file. For the free version, an ad will pop up, but if you want to skip the ad, the ad-free version is $9.95 ($19.95 for the entire suite of pdf software including security and pdf editing features). That beats the hundreds of dollars you'd have to pay for Adobe's software. PDF CREATOR It's better Than PDF995, it's free, and there's no ads.
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10-19-2008, 09:17 PM
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| Champion of justice Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Puerto Rico Age: 22
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Reserved for more , just in case.....PLEASE STICKY THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO DO THEIR OWN ARTWORK
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Rep Power: 0 | http://www.ubuntu.com Enough said. @PDF995 : Use PDFCreator. It's better, it's free, and there's no ads. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Last edited by Anon-sama; 10-19-2008 at 09:51 PM. |
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