Painter IX

[Robin Laing]

Henry Hartley wrote:
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Alexander Dalloz
>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:28 PM
>>>
>>>Am Mi, den 21.09.2005 schrieb Henry Hartley um 19:12:
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know of software similar to Corel Painter that
>>>>runs on Linux?  For a while Corel was pushing Linux but not
>>>>any more.
>>>
>>>I guess you are looking for tools like:
>>>Gimp (in Core)
>>>Inkscape (in Extras)
> 
> 
> Well, not really.  I use both of those, and perhaps I just need to be
> educated on new features.  Gimp and Inkscape do much, but not all of
> what I want.  As far as I can tell, however, neither of those really
> replaces Painter with its brushes, papers, and paints, etc.
> 
> FWIW, I find the Gimp interface to be harder to use then Photoshop's,
> although that may just by the fact that I used Photoshop for so long and
> got used to how it worked.  Also, I would say that while Gimp has come a
> long way, it really isn't up to what Photoshop can do.
> 

There is a version of GIMP out that has a front end that is supposed to 
be a clone of PhotoShop.  I don't remember what it is called though.

-- 
Robin Laing