Photoshop Alternative

[Schappy]

I am interested in using waterslide decals for my builds. What alternatives to photoshop are there to create these?

[Seljer]

Inkscape for vector drawing (no pixellation, very nice!)

GIMP for general image editing. Photoshop has some nice fancy features but you can accomplish most of the same tasks just as well in GIMP.

[Schappy]

So you can do your drilling layout on inkscape then import it to Gimp to add images?

[Steve Newton]

It would be the other way round, make your image in GIMP and your drilling template as a vector image in Inkscape. Then import the image into Inkscape for accurate positioning and sizing on the drilling template.

[davent]

It would be the other way round, make your image in GIMP and your drilling template as a vector image in Inkscape. Then import the image into Inkscape for accurate positioning and sizing on the drilling template.

This!

And to help get things rolling in Inkscape there's a great Vector pack of pedal .components.

http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=47294

[Perrow]

http://www.getpaint.net

If you're on PC that is. Much more like Photoshop than Gimp.

[Mustachio]

I like Inkscape a lot too, its a great program! I have legit copies of photoshop and illustrator on another computer but I find myself using inkscape on this computer more then anything now a days.

I'm not totally sure but I think adobe creative suite 2 (cs2) is free from adobe. All you have to do is sign up for a free adobe account and then download. I think CS2 will have Photoshop and Illustrator. From what I remember adobe didn't want to keep the old activation servers online for cs2 so they decided to give it away free no activation needed. But I could be wrong about all of this....

[J0K3RX]

I'm not totally sure but I think adobe creative suite 2 (cs2) is free from adobe. All you have to do is sign up for a free adobe account and then download. I think CS2 will have Photoshop and Illustrator. From what I remember adobe didn't want to keep the old activation servers online for cs2 so they decided to give it away free no activation needed. But I could be wrong about all of this....

You can download CS2 without signing up from snapfiles in under the freeware tab. Not a pirate site... legit. They also have a link to the Adobe page where you have to sign up.

I would post the link but for some reason I seem to have attracted some unwanted attention with a link to glossy paper I post a long time ago...