Can't afford Photoshop? Try Gimp!
 

This might be helpful for the few of us out there who would like to work in CG but can't fork out $2-300 for a decent program.

It's open-source and free, like Firefox, (and it started out on Linux, like Mozilla.) It's called "Gimp" and it has an interface nearly identical to that of Photoshop, and at about the same quality as well. It's free, and overall, about a 15MB download. Give it a shot ;-)

also, you don't need a super heavy-duty computer to run it either: My laptop runs it perfectly, it was designed for windows 98, and is running XP, and was playing MP3s, and running norton anti-virus simultaneously, so power should really not be an issue. You will want about 128mb of RAM, but I bet you could get away with less.

Have fun. :-)

http://www.gimp.org/

So you're just going to keep up advertising stuff, despite it being against forum rules?

Good plan to get warned. Now please stop it or you will have to face consequences.

See rule #3 for details:

It looks like this thread was started to point out some software, not to advertise its website. Since there is no referral link and he doesn't appear to be affiliated with the site, I'd say he was posting it to be helpful rather than to gain visitors, so this thread is fine with me. Unlocking...

I put the link in to it, I hope it's the right one...

Now I don't get it. It was OK that there was no link, so that's why you put it back?

Look up what a referral link is.

SPOILER: There still isn't a referral link

I edited out the referral link in the first post. Besides, it's still advertising. Good will or not. Free or not.

It's not his site though. That would be like someone making a post saying "Try firefox" and it being closed for Advertising.

So this isn't advertising despite sounding like an ad? It doesn't get much more "blatant advertising" than this. His site or not.

Gimp is on the GNU General Public Licence. Everyone can improve it, so the guy could have contributed to it as well.

It would be like me making a post saying "Try Wikipedia!". Of course I don't own this service, but I wrote a few articles for them, so I kinda belong to their community.

Advertisment or not, free stuff is awesome. 8D
The only thing I don't like so far is that the lines are all pixelated and not smooth like in Photoshop. D:

Alright, then we'll just start locking all threads including links just incase someone worked on, or contributed to the site they post.

Okay, so we close threads of people who advertise free content on sites because it's advertising (free stuff from amazon for example, free iPods, free whatnot...), but we don't close threads that advertise free content on sites?

Now that makes perfect sense.

EDIT: For example: Free movie tickets - locked: The user only had our entertainment in mind. It's the same thing, yet we locked it.

You're right, someone linking to a site that earns them money, another company money or them free stuff(By selling stuff to earn that company money) is exactly the same as someone trying to be nice and show a program they found. I've seen this link posted on several forums, with no one but you ever having a problem with it.

I wouldn't have a problem with this thread if someone actually asked for a solution to his/her GFX-needs and lack of money. It's not about the link per se. It's about the way we get this "friendly reminder".

But hey, let's open threads like:
Tired of Photobucket? - Try imageshack
IMDB not good enough? - See moviemistakes
DC's Infinite Crisis let you down? - Take a look at Civil War
Not too fond of meat? - Try Tofu

Good, eh?

I'm glad I stuck around long enough to have at laugh at your expense.

I'm having Pulp Fiction flashbacks

Oh, you boys. *grabs them by the ears* Don't make me drag you out of this thread, young men!

You're not my mom >:3 (<--- JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION!! QUICK, GET OUT OF THE THREAD!)