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Legend

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New to Graphics? Or looking for a new program? Well you have found the right thread :D. In this thread I will list quite a few programs I have used and heard of from family / friends. Let us know what you use!
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Gimp
Website:www.gimp.org
Information: Gimp is a great free program. Its a great program for beginners to graphics also! I originally started with Gimp and loved it. It was a great program to start out with.
Rating: 8.9


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Paint.net
Website: http://www.getpaint.net/
Information: A basic graphic creation program. This is good for artists looking to make basic pieces of art, or start to get into graphics.
Rating: 7.1
Example:
A button I made using a tutorial from the paint.net forums.
Button-1.png


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Adobe Photoshop
Website: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html
Information: A favorite of many, this is one of the top graphic programs on a computer. Although Photoshop is not free, it is a must have program for those looking to get deep into graphic design.
Rating: 9.7


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Cinema 4D
Website: http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/cinema4d/cinema4d_e.html
Information: Cinema 4D is a 3D modeling program. People often use images made in this program (C4Ds) in their graphics to make them look much nicer. This program is expensive, but a demo version can be found in the link provided. I have never used this program, tell me about your experiences.
Rating: N/A


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Drawplus 4
Website: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/sof...us/default.asp
Information: I've never used this program before, I heard about it though school. Ive heard its a very simple program to use.
Rating: N/A


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Macromedia// Adobe Flash Professional 8
Website: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/
Information: Professional flash graphics program. Never used it...
Quote from Blackfang
I recommend Flash CS3. I have good skill with it and its a great program. www.blackfang.newgrounds.com links you to my page on newgrounds. i have flash games that i made on there.
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Rating: 10 (Rating from Blackfang)



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Easy GIF Animator
Website: http://www.blumentals.net/egifan/download.php
Information: Easy to use GIF program. I have not used this, my dad uses it though.
Rating: N/A


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UnFREEz GIF Maker
Website: http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/
Information: A drag and drop animator... make your pictures then upload them to make them a .gif and animated. I have used this to make simple animations.
Rating: 6.2
Example:
123457777.gif



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Macromedia Fireworks 8
Website: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/i...duct=fireworks
Information: Not a free program, though it makes semi-good graphics. I do not suggest this program. It is simply not worth it for the price.
Free trial info in the download.
Rating: 5.9



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Blender
Website: http://www.blender.org/
Information: Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
Rating: N/A
Thanks =[Ga]= AutoDMC


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Inkscape
Website: http://www.inkscape.org/
Information: 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.
Rating: N/A
Thanks =[Ga]= AutoDMC



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Adobe - Illustrator CS3
Website: http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/
Information: Discover new ways to experiment with color; work faster with new drawing tools and controls; and produce artwork for print, web, mobile, and motion designs with Adobe? Illustrator? CS3 software.
Rating: N/A
Thanks =[Ga]= AutoDMC



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Adobe - Premier Pro CS3
Website: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/
Information: Make every phase of video production more efficient with Adobe? Premiere? Pro CS3 software, which includes Adobe OnLocation™ CS3* (Windows? only) and Adobe Encore? CS3.
Rating: N/A
Thanks =[Ga]= AutoDMC



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3D Studio Max
Website: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...112&id=5659302

Quote from =[GA]= AutoDMC
And it wasn't forgotten... it was ignored, because it's so stinkin' Expensive! :D But it is an awesome 3D animation program :D Mix that with MentalRay 3D Raytracer, and you get beautiful work... but you'll spend all your TF2 time working to pay it off :D But if you can get it, get it; after about 20 hours of instruction, and 10 hours of development, I made this in my college 3DSMax class
'Course, I didn't think to render each scene separately, which wasn't a problem until I had 3600 frames of animation, with a few tens of thousands of keyframes crammed into the timeline... I'm surprised it finished rendering, honestly (you can see the animation quality slowly ramp down..). So, again, 3DS Max... awesome program, but you're going to pay for it :D)
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I recommend Flash CS3. I have good skill with it and its a great program. www.blackfang.newgrounds.com links you to my page on newgrounds. i have flash games that i made on there.

EDIT* Haha nice one Legend =P
 
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Don't forget to add Blender for 3D (if you like pain :D Say, Engie on a Spy Map pain) http://www.blender.org/

SoftImage|XSI ModTool, does Source Stuff great: http://www.softimage.com/products/modtool/

Irfanview, to stop all the "How do I resize" and "What's this .*** format?" threads: http://www.irfanview.com/

Inkscape for vector work: http://www.inkscape.org/

Adobe Illustrator, for vector work with a budget: http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/

Virtualdub, for putting rendered Demo videos and Machinima into AVI: http://www.virtualdub.org/

Adobe Premiere, for video editing on a budget: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/
 
nice thread buddy!
cool programs to create and design stuff

EDIT:- although this is not ur fault, but i tried downloading the blender and inkscape programs, but they wont download due to the file being currupted...
thats what it says when i download it...
 
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Thanks =[Ga]= AutoDMC for more :) I will update the main post.
 
Forgot 3D studio max :D Anyway, nice thread !
 
3D Studio Max: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5659302

And it wasn't forgotten... it was ignored, because it's so stinkin' Expensive! :D But it is an awesome 3D animation program :D Mix that with MentalRay 3D Raytracer, and you get beautiful work... but you'll spend all your TF2 time working to pay it off :D (But if you can get it, get it; after about 20 hours of instruction, and 10 hours of development, I made this in my college 3DSMax class ([ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7p4Wo3CDg[/ame]) 'Course, I didn't think to render each scene separately, which wasn't a problem until I had 3600 frames of animation, with a few tens of thousands of keyframes crammed into the timeline... I'm surprised it finished rendering, honestly (you can see the animation quality slowly ramp down..). So, again, 3DS Max... awesome program, but you're going to pay for it :D)
 
=[Ga]= AutoDMC said:
3D Studio Max: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5659302

And it wasn't forgotten... it was ignored, because it's so stinkin' Expensive! :D But it is an awesome 3D animation program :D Mix that with MentalRay 3D Raytracer, and you get beautiful work... but you'll spend all your TF2 time working to pay it off :D (But if you can get it, get it; after about 20 hours of instruction, and 10 hours of development, I made this in my college 3DSMax class (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7p4Wo3CDg) 'Course, I didn't think to render each scene separately, which wasn't a problem until I had 3600 frames of animation, with a few tens of thousands of keyframes crammed into the timeline... I'm surprised it finished rendering, honestly (you can see the animation quality slowly ramp down..). So, again, 3DS Max... awesome program, but you're going to pay for it :D)
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Photoshop is also expensive... :p
 
This thread is particularly useful because often people ask how to make sigs themselves and what programs to use, this is definitely informative.

Good Job.
 
Thanks for the feedback guys :)
I also updated the main post with 3D Studio Max
 
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