Raster artwork tool?
Some tale of frustration with drawing tools I've tried to get up and running.
I suppose given that, I should go all-the-way with OpenCanvas? I do wish Krita was a bit more functional heh.
Zbrush looks very interesting, I haven't tried it yet. appdb says it uses the Wine option "--dll wintab32=n", which may be the one hack I haven't tried to get pressure sensitivity working in PSP 7.. *sigh* I'm too tired for more hacking - Discuss. :P
- Krita: has such bells and whistles as filters written in Perl and Python, but as of the version that came with Kubuntu 7.10, shading is impossible as far as I can tell. The burn brush does not seem to work AT ALL.
- Gimp: Clumsy but not impossible to work with...Alas once I am at the shading / highlight stage of a picture.. I see about 10 different tools and such to do the job, and the results are less ridiculous than in Krita.. Gimp cannot seem to do the job of shading well enough... (The solution could be as simple as finding or importing the shading brush I need. Since I have a tablet, I can really use a brush that does a tiny bit of retouching for every pen stroke. :P )
- I've been using Jasc (now Corel) Paint Shop Pro 7.0 for all my artwork for a long time. It works for all but the text tool in Wine, but now that I have a tablet it seems to not detect pressure sensitivity at all, which is an important feature now... I haven't hacked around with it so much, though. (Check wintab.dll?)
- Other commercial software... Well, I had to re-copy a backup .wine directory after I really messed up the system trying to copy a functional Photoshop CS from my Windows partition, so I'm reluctant to believe anything I read on http://appdb.winehq.org/ now. :P
- Gimpshop: Requires me to completely uninstall all of Gimp, at least for the Linux version..
- Once I had my tablet configured in Linux, OpenCanvas 4 worked beautifully.. The interface seems just a little too primitive... I haven't completed a work with it, but compared to other tools this one has the most potential.
I suppose given that, I should go all-the-way with OpenCanvas? I do wish Krita was a bit more functional heh.
Zbrush looks very interesting, I haven't tried it yet. appdb says it uses the Wine option "--dll wintab32=n", which may be the one hack I haven't tried to get pressure sensitivity working in PSP 7.. *sigh* I'm too tired for more hacking - Discuss. :P
