2D program gripes

achillesian

Okay, so heres where i'm stuck,

My pros and cons for both painter (IX or X) and photoshop (cs4)



Photoshop
+sketching brushes
+custom brushes
+filters
+works with zapplink
-massive slowdown with smudge brush
-color picker

Painter
+blending brushes (wide array, little slowdown)
+good color picker, and pallet system
+extra window for commonly used brushes
-Sketching brushes not as cool
-No custom shape brushes that i know of
-Not nearly as many filters
-not able to start with transparent background
-wont work with zapplink

Gimp is somewhere inbetween the 2, but i dont like it that much


Any reccomendations on 1 program that i will like 100% so i wont have to fucking switch back and forth?

LoTekK

Have you tried SAI? Its brush customisation isn't as robust as PS, but it blends beautifully, has a great color picker+palette system, and is fast as balls. Very barebones in terms of filters, though.

http://systemax.jp/en/sai/

achillesian

thanks for the link! i'll try this out, hopefully that fast as balls part is maintained at print resolution, and on my comp which isnt so great

cw

maybe this is not what you mean but.. re: -massive slowdown with smudge brush for PS;

untick 'spacing' in brush options for smudge, set opacity to 20% or so, then go try it. Much nicer eh? And you can add non-hard round brush dab or scattering for more juicy delicious smudging.

hope it is helpful!

edit: and in PS (cs3 or later i guess) you can float the tool preset palette and store commonly used brushes in there similar to painter.

Michael Knubben

That's a good trick, walla, and I use the smudge-brush like that almost all the time (and with scattering, often), but it's nowhere near as cool as the smudging in painter or sai.
Incidentally, I love Sai.

achillesian

helping alot walla, now is for a much lesser issue, is there a plugin to change the color selector in PSCS4 into the color wheel of sai and painter?