[gameprogrammer] Re: BitMaps

>      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,

I've never tried gimp on a windows machine but if it requires the
'cygwin' runtime or something I'd look away.  

The built in paint program will suffice for simple bitmaps but you're
going to have a bit of a struggle to get some of the results that are
easily done with Photoshop.  

Photoshop is too expensive and for small bitmaps it's a tad overkill.
 Take a look at PaintShop Pro.  Now owned by Corel.  Hopefully they
still offer a trial version to play with.  This program is not a good
as Photoshop for large bitmaps but for the sizes you are dealing with
(even at double the size you are dealing with) this program is about
equivalent; ok it may not have all the filter effects that photoshop
has but it does have layers and about the same amount of layer
effects as photoshop and that alone goes a long way to bitmap munging
blis.  It's an order of magnitude cheaper too.  I think Corel has a
sale on it for $70, at least that's from the latest spam that I got
from them.

I haven't tried Photoshop LE (light edition); does Adobe they still
sell that?  I don't think it's as cheap as PaintShop Pro and I don't
know what they did to cripple it from the full blown Photoshop. 
Unless someone else has played with it, they could comment.

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