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Typo Boy - Dec 10, 2004 6:07:10 pm PST #491 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

What is a good choice of free graphic program for the person with no artistic talent? Ideally can do easy transformation of a drawing into a transparent gif, the ability to combine multiple graphics into a single montage or whatever you call it, some hue corrrection ability, and some smoothing and error correction abilities. In other words photoshop lite (or whatever they call the $30 version of photoshop these days) except for free. Anything like that out there? Anything close?

Thanks -signed

Set out to make Christmas cards, and found out my old version of photoshop won't install on my new machine.

§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 6:54:30 pm PST #492 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think there's a Gimp for Windows, TB.

tommyrot - Dec 10, 2004 6:54:34 pm PST #493 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Paint Shop Pro has a free 30 day trial period. In the old days, you could continue to use it well beyond the trial period, but I don't think so anymore. It's actually a pretty sophisticated program, closer to Photoshop than Photoshop Lite.

Also, there's the open source program The Gimp. It's available for Windows, Linux and the Mac, but the Mac version requires The X Windowing System (X11 or Xfree 86) installed. It's very powerful and (I think) not as easy to use as Paint Shop Pro.

quester - Dec 10, 2004 7:14:02 pm PST #494 of 10003
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I have a question for the hivemind. I'm trying to teach my graphite iMac new OSX tricks. I can't remember the keyboard combo that will add a program to the Dock. Anybody know?

DCJensen - Dec 10, 2004 7:57:17 pm PST #495 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

I'm not sure if there is one, I just drag an application to the dock, and it adds it to the dock. Drag it away to remove it.

OSX Keyboard shortcuts: [link]

Aha! Found it...

"You can also add an application by Control-clicking (right-clicking) on its icon, while running, and choosing the "Keep in Dock" option."

quester - Dec 10, 2004 8:07:47 pm PST #496 of 10003
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

That's it! thank you Daniel!

Jessica - Dec 11, 2004 4:48:27 am PST #497 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Gmail down for anyone else?

[eta: Can't get to Google.com either. Not good.]

le nubian - Dec 11, 2004 5:12:45 am PST #498 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

No problems here - but this is hours after you posted.

Jessica - Dec 11, 2004 5:25:35 am PST #499 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Well, 30 minutes. And I still can't get to Google or Gmail, from either computer here.

Very strange.

le nubian - Dec 11, 2004 5:50:40 am PST #500 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Clear out your cookies and try it again.

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