[gameprogrammer] Re: BitMaps

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 16.16, Daniel Greeson wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
>      I hope everyone is doing fine and still on fire from the
> wonderful Christmas Season.  My questions is quite simple really. 
> I have been programming a game in VB and it is time for the
> graphics well the tut. suggests Photoshop and me being the poor
> person I am, I don't have Photoshop and I don't have money to
> purchase photoshop.  What my needs are is to come up with a couple
> of bitmaps largest being 500X300 and tut. suggest to do them in
> system palette or something liek that so I don't get a bug in the
> colors or so forth.  i was wondering if there is a way to do it in
> like paint and save it as a bitmap file extension?  do any of you
> have better suggestions or comments, or am i just going to have to
> buy photoshop?  Thanks for the help,

Try the GIMP.

 http://www.gimp.org/

It's rather similar to PhotoShop and for practical matters about as 
powerful. Long since I used PS personally, but the general concensus 
seems to be that GIMP lacks some of the GUI smoothness of PS (preview 
not implemented in all filters, for example), but has extremely 
strong scripting support and some other strong points.

Oh, and it's Free/Open Source (in case you need/want to hack it, port 
it to some odd hardware, or just don't like to depend on the whims 
and well being of some company), and the price is unbeatable! ;-)

Binaries are available for Un*x platforms, Windows and Mac OS X.

(Speaking of hacking: http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/ That's the 
true meaning of "Use The Source, Luke!")


Sorry 'bout the Free/Open Source ranting. (Hey, there's a reason 
my .sig says what it says! ;-) Hope you find the software useful.


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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