What is your favourite (2D) digital art program?

I'm a long time Linux user (going on 12 years with some flavor of it as my primary OS) and gimp is native and works pretty good. I've had to learn a few things the round about way because friends, coworkers, and online tutorials all focus on Adobe's product line.

I would love to get better with Inkscape, but it keeps crashing when I try to adjust a logo I paid a friend to make a vector file of for me. Hopefully that'll clear up when I finally upgrade my computer.

 

I'm torn, I voted Illustrator, because for straight up art and not just banners I use it all the time. I'm not great at drawing without a reference, but my pencil work leaves something to be desired, so I get the best results with illustrator.

 

Good old Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7.04 (for editing), and FireAlpaca (for painting).

 

Mine would have to be Paint Tool Sai because it's the only one I've ever used. Photoshop looks terrifying with all those buttons and settings and things.

 

I actually use Manga Studio EX for my line work and then export it as a PSD to color in photoshop.

 

Manga Studio 5/Clip Studio Paint is absolutely fantastic if you have a lineart style. I haven't explored its painting options much just because that's not really in my comfort zone right now, but I have seen some really beautiful paint-style works come out of it.

What I love about it is that you can save so much time coloring lineart with the smart fill tool. It's always been much more responsive than Photoshop and doesn't leave that awkward white aura around things that you fill in. The stabilization correction for lineart is really great too, and the brush options are great. Plus, I think it's been the easiest art program to learn so far. There are a lot of really great, really easy-to-follow guides on youtube that can teach you the essentials of the program pretty quickly. Best part: The software goes on sale all the time. You can get this program for like $25 about 4 times per year, around the usual sale times: Black Friday, Christmas, some time in the spring, and usually a summer sale.

 

Yeah I love MS as a lining tool, for one thing the correction control on curves makes things look so much smoother!

 

painttool sai is the go-to program for me... i use photoshop sometimes for fancier effects, but otherwise ive really grown to love sai. it feels natural!

 

Macromedia MX Fireworks. I've only recently been introduced to GIMP. I haven't really worked with it because I'm accustomed to FW. However, I do like that it's free.

 

I've been using Photoshop for over 7+ years so I kinda have to vote for it. It offers a lot of different brush options that help the process go a lot quicker, plus some amazing plug-ins. I just got a brush organizer so I can separate them by what i use them for and a plugin that changes a palette to offer highlights and shadows whenever you click on a color. There are just so many amazing things that you can do with it from drawing to graphics that I really can't not vote for it!

 

I've been a long time user of Paint Shop Pro (previously made by JASC and now Corel). While not nearly as amazing as Adobe Photoshop, it does everything I need it to do, which is mostly basic picture editing (filters, layers, artistic effects, etc.)

 

I primarily just use GIMP because it's free.

 

I use Gimp for graphics but SAI for Art. owo

 

I personally like Paint Shop Pro. Been using it for years. Also like Photoshop Elements though I use that for drawing mostly.

 

The now extinct Adobe Fireworks.
Although I tend to use Adobe Photoshop for anything that involves fonts or requires advanced effects.

 

I draw in SAI but I use Gimp for graphics. owo

 

I use Open Canvas 6. It's a cheap alternative to Photoshop and I find it does everything I need it to do, with a simple layout and a bunch of amazing features. I can draw in it, and use it for manips as well.

 

I think it depends on what I'm making, but if it's drawing, Procreate is super great for it. If it's just for making banners or things like that, photoshop is definitely my top.

 

As a former engineer I was fortunate in having experience with a workshop program called One CNC. This drawing package allowed me to create things other than items for my actual job. From there at home I was able to find a free version of the same and from that not only did I design our then new home, but many niche pieces for the various roll plays I've been involved in. Coupled with Photoshop my creativity is only limited by my imagination.