The Gimp is my #1 choice, but for tutorials, 2d and 3d software and stuff
check out http://www.linuxartist.org
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> Ever see a classy web page logo with shadows, highlighting,
> characters/font type like aAbB...etc. but all tailor made into some
> special sylistic shapes and for the logo picture some fantastic type of
> picture embedded with all of that fancy text but part as background and
> part standing out in the foreground. How can one do that sort of thing
> on Linux? I tried Canvas but it didn't work and so sent email to the
> Canvas web site just to find out that they were aware of the problem and
> apparently did not fix it but withdrew Canvas for the Linux platform.
>
> And what about drawing people, trees, snowflakes, and who knows what
> else. Is there software out there that actually lets you draw
> professional looking pictures and/or combine them with extracts from a
> photograph(s)? Anything I've encountered in this respect (which is quite
> limited) is a real hassel to draw anything because one cannot get enough
> control with the mouse so an attempt to create a simple curve ends up
> smattered with unintended zigs and zags. I could do it 100 times better
> with a pencil and an eraser. But yet somewhere there are those that are
> doing this sort of thing on the computer without a pencil and paper. Is
> there some software for Linux that makes drawing sophisticated
> professional quality pictures a real possibility?
>
> The only way I know at the present is to draw a picture by hand, fairly
> large, and then photograph it and convert it into a jpeg or some other
> kind of file. This takes special lenses, a 35MM camera, special
> lighting, and hours and hours of artwork.
>
> Look at magazine adds embedded with pictures fading out into the
> background and then some large words in sylized form and so on, then
> adjacent to that panel another sesational chunk of art work overlaid in
> a corner of the page or a section of the page with some special
> anouncement that stands out over everything else without creating a
> conflict. And so on and so on.
>
> Anyone know what I'm talking about, have any ideas or suggestions???
> Are there any HOWTO's on doing computer based art work the sort I have
> been explaining???
> I'll also tell you why. I need to create slide shows for streaming on
> RealServer and the artwork is an important feature. So I'm trying to
> figure out if I can do the artwork on the computer or if I have to do
> the artwork the old way with pencil and paintbrush, with physical
> overlays, etc., and then photograph and convert to jpeg, gif, etc.
>
> Bye-thanks_TED
>
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