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Meatballsub Divine Bovine
Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 437 Location: Northwest Georgia
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject: Graphic program with keyboard support |
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I guess what I am looking for is a graphic program that has the keyboard functionality of CUSTOM's graphic editor (such as being able to draw each pixel with the keyboard rather than a mouse). Does such a program exist? _________________ MOCBJ Software - My Games
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LeRoy_Leo Project manager Class S Minstrel
Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 2683 Location: The dead-center of your brain!
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, God. How I wish such a thing existed. For all I know, it could exist.
Graphics tablets help a lot, but without the control of the arrow keys, it's difficult to make accurate pixel art for me. In short, I too would like to see something like this. _________________ Planning Project Blood Summons, an MMORPG which will incinerate all of the others with it's sheer brilliance...
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"Seriously James, you keep rolling out the awesome like gingerbread men on a horror-movie assembly line. " |
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djfenix
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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someone should export the custom.exe drawing program to make it usable with varying sizes and wider range of colours.... |
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TMC On the Verge of Insanity
Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 3240 Location: Matakana
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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This gets asked quite a lot, doesn't it?
In that thread, Calehay concludes by suggesting mtPaint
djfenix wrote: | someone should export the custom.exe drawing program to make it usable with varying sizes and wider range of colours.... |
A couple years ago, I did something like this by modifying the tile editor to work on any graphics size up to about 100x80 or so (with variable zoom), cut out of a 320x200 backdrop (so you could edit a piece at a time). Jabber wanted it. I don't have it anymore. _________________ "It is so great it is insanely great." |
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Meatballsub Divine Bovine
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MultiColoredWizard Come back, baby! The Breastmaster
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: |
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you could probably get clever and set up joy2key to make the arrows count as mouse movement.
just use the mouse with mspaint. use the vista version if you want a bigger buffer. other than programs like promotion or graphics gale, you can't really beat mspaint for pixel art. you might want to have psp6/7 on the side for other things.
mostly just use mspaint though. it's really good. use the line tool instead of the pen tool.
don't use the keyboard to draw. trust me on this.
edit: actually the worst thing about mspaint is the way the palette management works. the RGB values aren't shown at all when choosing them or in the colors, and the color picker is really... odd. learn to pick colors using HSL.
someone needs to disassemble winxp paint and fix its undo buffer to have about 20 ways to undo. seriously, if it had a better undo buffer(something like psp's) and color options and shortcutes like psp did, it would be the perfect paint program.
why haven't the open source dudes made an awesome version???? paint.net doesn't count! |
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TwinHamster ♫ Furious souls, burn eternally! ♫
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:13 am Post subject: |
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There's a free version of Gale, which is great if you're using it just to have a better tool than MSPaint.
Quote: | don't use the keyboard to draw. trust me on this. |
I've never understood why people like using the keyboard.
It seems horribly slow.
And as for accuracy, unless you've frequently get hand-spasms, I don't see how it's going to be an issue. |
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LeRoy_Leo Project manager Class S Minstrel
Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 2683 Location: The dead-center of your brain!
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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I like to use the arrows for precision. I have turrets, so my hands are a little shaky. Now if only my eye was as precise as my mind. _________________ Planning Project Blood Summons, an MMORPG which will incinerate all of the others with it's sheer brilliance...
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"Seriously James, you keep rolling out the awesome like gingerbread men on a horror-movie assembly line. " |
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Moogle1 Scourge of the Seas Halloween 2006 Creativity Winner
Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 3377 Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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LeRoy_Leo wrote: | I like to use the arrows for precision. I have turrets, so my hands are a little shaky. Now if only my eye was as precise as my mind. |
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You mean Tourette's, right? _________________
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LeRoy_Leo Project manager Class S Minstrel
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry. My fingers were all over the place and I spelled it wrong. _________________ Planning Project Blood Summons, an MMORPG which will incinerate all of the others with it's sheer brilliance...
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