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drawing program for mac?

post #1 of 12
2/27/08 at 2:48am
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does anyone know of an inexpensive drawing program (not illustrator) that would be adequate for making cartoons/comic strips?
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post #2 of 12
2/27/08 at 3:26am
This blog mentions 4 inexpensive drawing programs -- http://sketchmarx.blogspot.com/2007/...g-for-mac.html
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post #3 of 12
2/27/08 at 5:43am
There is always a Darwin port of the GIMP. http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
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post #4 of 12
2/28/08 at 1:04am
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thank you very much for this. i'm using scribbles and artrage and they work well. the only disappointment is that neither has a 'paint bucket' feature.
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post #5 of 12
2/28/08 at 1:47am
Corel Painter is very fun to use and play around in if you have a pen tablet.


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There is always a Darwin port of the GIMP. http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
Have you actually tried to use GIMP or any of its ports? That's like telling someone that swimming is very fun if they wear a lead apron.
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post #6 of 12
2/28/08 at 8:06am
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Have you actually tried to use GIMP or any of its ports? That's like telling someone that swimming is very fun if they wear a lead apron.

Hey, you get what you pay for. I use GIMP all the time as I use Linux mostly at work. I think it has come a long way and you can do some great things. The interfaces on OSS sometimes are a little weird. I have friends that can do some pretty cool 3d modeling with Blender too.
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post #7 of 12
2/29/08 at 12:12am
Omnigraffle might work but it isn't cheap.
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post #8 of 12
3/31/08 at 5:31pm
Have you tried inkscape? There seems to be a mac version of it, so it's probably worth a try.
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post #9 of 12
3/31/08 at 5:46pm
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Hey, you get what you pay for. I use GIMP all the time as I use Linux mostly at work. I think it has come a long way and you can do some great things. The interfaces on OSS sometimes are a little weird. I have friends that can do some pretty cool 3d modeling with Blender too.

I would suggest that the experience, especially from a Mac user perspective with experience with Photoshop, can be enhanced and simplified by using the GimpShop mod.

This, of course has one caveat: Gimpshop isn't compatible, as far as I know with Leopard.

Drawing will still be easier within Artrage, but colouring in the line art would be a definitely enhanced with Gimp.
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post #10 of 12
3/31/08 at 5:49pm
You could always get BootCamp / Fusion / Parallels and run windows-based drawing programs.

Jon.
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post #11 of 12
3/31/08 at 6:52pm
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You could always get BootCamp / Fusion / Parallels and run windows-based drawing programs.

Jon.

That would be like buying a Ferrari and driving 45mph.
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post #12 of 12
4/1/08 at 1:15am
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That would be like buying a Ferrari and driving 45mph.
He's new to Macs Ann old thread, but missed it first time round... Re - GIMP ports - Seashore is ok and runs native on Mac. Worth playing with. Re - drawing apps - Open Office 3 is a few months away, but will run native on Mac and includes the rudimentary-but-functional app Draw. Ive played with it on Linux, did what I needed it to.
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