Favorite Graphics Creation Tool

[vroom]

Paint

 17/2%

PaintShop

 94/11%

PhotoShop

 216/26%

FireWorks

 36/4%

CorelDraw

 20/2%

Illustrator

 12/1%

The Gimp

 255/31%

GD.pm

 40/5%

Image::Magick

 27/3%

images.google.com

 65/8%

Other

 40/5%

822 total votes

[silent11]

here are some PerlMonk desktop images I made with Photoshop, my graphic editor of choice.
image 1
image 12
image 13
image 14
image 15
image 16
image 17
image 18

If yall like em, I can make more, let me know.
-Silent11



Update

The images are now hosted here

[ejf]

Some very nice ones there ... I'll put them in round-robin for one of the panes, thanks :)

Are the .jpg ones avaiable in some non-lossy format as well ? After having viewed too many of them, the artifacts really stand out, especially when used as backgrounds ...

[belg4mit]

The link names are deceiving!

I thought "image 1" was funny, and "image 16" cool looking.

--
perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

[Chady]

I'd say, bad excessive use of plug-ins.. although image 18 is nice and stylish.

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He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

[2mths]

I first used one of these as my wallpaper just over a year ago. After rebuilding my machine and loosing the image I have been on the hunt for them ever since. A chance find of an email in my archive has reunited me. ++silent11 (Now that I am able to vote!)

[quesada]

cool!

[silent11]

heh. 9 years later I find these images sitting on an old linux machine I'm about to decomm. the links to the above images have been broken for the better part of the last decade.
these desktop images will now have a permanent home at:
http://silent11.com/pm/

While I'm not particularly fond of the images any more I had to provide the link to their new home just in case :)
-silent11

[jdporter]

And they're as brilliant as ever, silent11! Thanks for re-hosting them, and bringing them to our attention again.

[count0]

What about those of us who hand craft our pics with vim? ;)


static char * perl_xpm[] = {
  "23 09 3 1",
  "   c None",
  ".  c #FFFFFF",
  "+  c #000000",
  "....................++.",
  ".....................+.",
  ".++++...+++..+.++....+.",
  ".+...+.+...+.++..+...+.",
  ".+...+.++++..+.......+.",
  ".+...+.+.....+.......+.",
  ".++++...+++..+......+++",
  ".+.....................",
  ".+....................."
};

[Vynce]

static char *

what kind of perl is that?

do this in perl, then it's cool.

.

[wrvhage]

It's his Perl C interpreter ofcourse.

Brother Willem

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[e-mail] | http://wrvh.xs4all.nl

[count0]

It's an xpm image file, commonly used with GTK+ and GNOME software.

[belg4mit]

Un!x, from scratch

Haven't got one, xpaint?

Un!x, tweaking

xv!!! God I love xv.

Win32, from scratch

Paint Shop Pro 4 (3 will do but it is lacking, most notably LFN support)

Win32, tweaking

LView Pro 1.D2 (the closest Win32 native to xv, yes you can run xv on NT but it's not the same)

At some point PSP decided it should be Adobe, and Lview decided it should be PSP :-(.

--
perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

[dws]

For sheer, pointless brutality, nothing beats programmatically generating code to programmatically generate your pixels using On-demand, single-pixel GIFs.

[Phaysis]

Fave? Paint Shop Pro 5. Love it. Good schtuff.

Perfectly powerful for screen-based images (desktops, websites, POVRay, etc). Medium strength on images destined for print media. Good for pixel shims, icons, screen captures; TWAIN support is respectable. Supports masks, alpha channels, layers, monitor gamma, color management, PhotoShop plugins, and so on. I've done some fantastic retouching with this app; clone brush be my friend.... It can split on CMYK/RGB colorspaces, and it can *join* on those colorspaces as well. Extensive support for a lot of image formats. Downside? The "picture-tube" feature introduced in PSP5, if you ask me, is rather useless; another "image creation for dummies" featurette. Whatever.

All around, it's a good application (especially when compared to Paint Shop Pro 3).

-Shawn
(P^h) Phaysis
If idle hands are the tools of the devil, are idol tools the hands of god?

[Slipstream]

PSP7. Finally got on board with vectors. Hooray for bendable text!

[beppu]

<luddite> paper and pencil </luddite>

[ichimunki]

Hmmm. My favorite graphics creation tool is a pinhole camera and a scanner. Okay, I admit it: more likely to be a 35mm camera onto Photo CD. I suppose I'd use the GIMP after that, though, to make the image computer-useful. Then Illustrator for when text or nice looking printing is involved. I also really liked old versions of Painter for Mac OS.

[greywolf]

PhotoShop is my friend! Say it out loud and you will know it to be true.

Many people I work with think that PaintShop is better than PhotoShop. But we know better than that, don't we?

I usually do my graphics work on a PC so I haven't had a chance to do much with The Gimp. I hope to learn how to use it soon.

mr greywolf

[cat2014]

photoshop, on a mac, is my favorite. painter is also really nice if you have a wacom tablet, but alas- it's not a poll choice. -- cat

[thaigrrl]

I have a soft spot for ascii art. cowsay (debian linux) is the shizzy:

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< Thaigrrrrl roolz >
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        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

[nefertari]

My digital camera (HP Photosmart 318, a christmas present from my parents and iPhoto, terribly slow on my beige 266 MHz PowerMac), and POVray (currently switching to MegaPOV since there was an OSX-Version available, transfer not completed.)

[IOrdy]

Photoshop is the only reason my work machine still boots into windows everyday :(

www.iordy.com
A One Man Design Army

[projekt21]

My Favorite Graphics Creation Tool is our company's designer. It involves some IRL communication but the output is really worth it :-)

use Company::Designer;
my $request = Company::Designer->new(idea     => "....",
                                     sketches => "....",);
while (!$request->done) {
  drink_coffee();
}

my $graphics = $request->output;

alex pleiner <[e-mail]>
zeitform Internet Dienste

[rbc]

I use to like SGI's showcase ... when I had a SGI box.

[munchie]

Definately PSP 7. For what I like to do, Photoshop would just cost 500 more dollars, and would give me much more.

> munchie, the number munchin newb
Llama: The other other white meat!
(you had to be there :-P)

[brianarn]

You mean you pay for your software? ;)

I've always been a big Photoshop and PSP fan, but I also have a copy of the Win32 port of The GIMP on my system because I really like some of the stuff it can do (image offsets to make tileable web backgrounds, for one)

~Brian

[E-Bitch]

I used to be a huge photoshop fan... back in the ps5 days. ps6 is just too complex, it's the jack of all trades but master of none kind of program.

I'm going to have to go with the gimp. anyone seen my gimp around?
_________________________________________
E-Bitch
Tempora Mutantur Nos et Mutamur in Illis
"The Times are Changed Even as We are Changed in Them"

[robot_tourist]

Is it bad to be on day 781 of your Paint Shop Pro 4 evaluation?

I have a wiry brain/each eye a camera. "Robot Tourist" by Ten Benson

[FiReWaLL]

It's worse than beeing on the 450th day of your evaluation of phtoshop Pro 5 evaluation or 200th of photoshop 6 ^_^


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FiReWaLL
The only thing you regret in life, is the risk you don't take.

[cecil36]

I'm too cheap to go spend time and money on the decent graphics programs, so I use MS Paint. I don't use it much either, so I don't bother with it.

[Doos]

whatever happend to Blender, it's free.

[amelinda]

FireWorks and DreamWeaver are two of the top three reasons my desktop machine boots into Windows (98lite). Vector graphics make me very happy, and the integration with DreamWeaver (almost all the graphics work I do is for web stuff) makes me even more happy.

The third reason? CivIII, of course.

[tye]

No one has mentioned Picture Publisher, which is my current favorite because the interface makes sense to me.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

[gregor-e]

ZBrush (so cool, I have to use an ice-scraper on my screen)

[ProgrammingAce]

I like the Flash 5 generator, Swish 2. It's much better than Flash itself

          - Ace

[Anonymous Monk]

Since the question was favorite graphics creation tool I'd have to say Corel Painter 7 and Corel Bryce 5. Now, had the question been about manipulation then Photoshop 6 would win hands down.