[Newark] Linux (Ubuntu) Graphics Tablets

[Chris Hayes]

Hey Dean,

GIMP is a fairly powerful raster graphics editor - if you're willing
to put the time into learning its interface you can use it to do quite
a lot. If you would prefer something more like Photoshop in outward
appearance - you could try krita, a KDE application which I hear is
good for a lot of things.

I would recommend learning GIMP, though - personally I think it's the
best Free Software product of that type out there. Unfortunately, for
the last 4 minutes I've been searching for a good gallery of artwork
made in the GIMP... fail.

If you aren't concerned about the freedom side of things - and you
don't get on with those two, there is a proprietary program called
Pixel. I only know of it's name, if you would like to find out more
about it go to http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12

Saying that, I have heard people rave about Paint.NET being good. You
can run this via Mono, the Open Source implementation of the Microsoft
.net framework. And Paint.NET is, incidentally, distributed under a
free software license.


Chris Hayes

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Steve Caddy <steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Dean Asher wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had any experience with Graphic tablets with Ubuntu, I can find
>> lots information regarding Wacom tablets but unfortunately there very
>> expensive. Is there another cheaper option to use and how much playing is
>> involved getting the pressure sensitivity working properly ?.
>
> I've got a Wacom Serif plugged into a USB port on my Ubuntu machine, and
> quite honestly, it just worked out of the box. I loaded gimp, and started
> using it, without any problems or further setting up. But then, I'm not a
> really serious g-tab user.
>
>> Ps apart from gimp and running PS in wine is there any other good painting
>> and drawing programs you would recommend?
>
> Not off the top of my head. Gimp is the one that most people seem to reach
> for first, and it does everything I need, so I've not looked any further.
> Again, I'm not a really serious graphics person, I'm a programmer, so don't
> take this to mean that there aren't other options.
>
> Steve
>
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