Gimp confuses me And Paintbrush doesnt do the best graphics

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24Keyser
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Gimp confuses me And Paintbrush doesnt do the best graphics

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I was thinking of making a map.

I have Paintbrush 2.0.1 and Gimp on a Mac OS X

Gimp confuses me And Paintbrush doesnt do the best graphics
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Get photoshop. Borrow it from a friend or something.
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Industrial Helix wrote:Get photoshop. Borrow it from a friend or something.
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Re: Gimp confuses me And Paintbrush doesnt do the best graph

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Why?

Gimp is perfectly adequate for mapmaking.

I don't know about actual photoshop, but I have photoshop elements and I find it harder to use than gimp.
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Photoshop has a lot of convenience features that Adobe cuts out of Elements, so that's your issue with harder to use.
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Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
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