"Patrick Nichols" (pnichols)
03/15/2015 at 17:05 • Filed to: None
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"Patrick Nichols" (pnichols)
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I know at least a few people around here are pretty talented with digital graphics and I'm hoping you might have some good suggestions for relatively cheap (read: preferably free) programs to create graphics.
I'm a math/accounting student so my main use would be creating infographics and such. More specifically would be used for my senior research/thesis/poster session on baseball statistics. Hopefully whatever I learn from this I can use going forward and maybe share some stuff on here.
I mostly use a mac, but I have access to a windows 7 laptop and have been thinking about creating a partition for my mbp. So either platform would work, but I would like something fairly user friendly with decent tutorials (forums, youtube videos, books, etc.). Any help would be great.
Rally Bug for your time
(Photo credit: GIS)
Funktheduck
> Patrick Nichols
03/15/2015 at 17:11 |
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There's a program that's like photoshop called GIMP. It's free and is very similar to photoshop. It has different filters and such like photoshop but with different names because of copyrights I think. I used it a little in college but I don't really have the talent or patience for that kind of thing.
Tareim - V8 powered
> Patrick Nichols
03/15/2015 at 17:13 |
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Photoshop CS2 is free now; http://www.techspot.com/downloads/3689…
105 HP of fury
> Patrick Nichols
03/15/2015 at 17:37 |
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Another vote for GIMP, if you want to manipulate existing images. For creating your own vector graphics, Inkscape has good tools and is free. Both are cross-platform, I can run them on my mac at home or my windows desktop at work.
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> Patrick Nichols
03/15/2015 at 18:18 |
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GIMP and Paint.NET are two very good programs. Paint.NET is very lightweight and easy to use, no Vector or RAW support as far as I'm aware though.
DasWauto
> Patrick Nichols
03/15/2015 at 20:38 |
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Gimp is a good free Photoshop replacement. It has a bit of a learning curve but can be pretty powerful.
Inkscape is a good free vector graphics program, similar to Adobe Illustrator.
Those 2 should cover just about anything you want to do.