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Other Stuff => Other Topics => Topic started by: Dynaflow on February 21, 2009, 12:52:05 am
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I thought I'd share a pretty slick little free photoshop program I've been using. Not having dollars running out of my rear end and long ago gave up my pirate flag, I was in need of a photoshop program. I did a search and came up with a darn nice freeware program called Gimp (Graphic Image Manipulation Program). It does quite a nice job and has some nice effects, and saves in many formats. The link is:
http://www.gimp.org/
I was able to create a custom canvas of 17" x 2.5" and drew up a decent black and white graphic for a faceplate. I think I'll go to Kinko's and have them print and laminate a few just in case I screw something up. Its pretty cool in that it does allow pretty exacting positioning using rulers in pixels or inches and a variety of other measurements so a little judicial measurement of the holes in the head chassis I had and I think I got it nailed. I'm just doing a simple tweed deluxe head in a weber 18watt chassis so there's lots of room and it'll end up in a marshall style head box. More on this when I actually get it printed up, but thought I'd give Kudo's for a great program at a even better price. :D
Regards,
Dyna
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I'm a Gimp user for ~6-7 years now....I dig it. I only had a problem with 1 version of it (out of many), but a simple update cleared the recurring error and all has been kosher since.
Another free open-source program I'd recommend is Open Office www.openoffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org) for things that Microsoft Office would do... i.e. Word Processing, Powerpoint, Spreadsheet etc. You can even save files in formats compatible with MS-Office.
j.
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I'm still using Paint Shop Pro 7
Corel bought them out and proceeded to ruin the program.
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Actually both pieces of software mentioned are powerful professional level applications.
If you like to program check out Sharp Edit.