Just curious... I make using Paint.NET (sometimes GIMP and normal Paint).
I use Photoshop, because I'm fortunate to have it; and I like using layers - it works well for the type of things I do.
I always wanted to have Photoshop... now I need to buy -.-
Me too. Layers are the MOST important thing to use for.
The GIMP also has layer management, and is free. But I also use Photoshop, because I know it better :)
For creating simutrans objects I use Blender, a custom tool and Shades. Some (few) times also Photoshop.
I use photofiltre, the others are too complicated for me :-X
I use Gimp and i'm rather pleased with it.
photoshop has this one feature that GIMP does not have, and it's magic wand without contiguous selection. This tool really simplifies cleaning up 3D renders.
Nice shot! 8) I really used the magic wand a lot to clean my 3D renders. Even it is great to repaint graphics with special/player colors. Now I don't use it any more though.
I use PAINT.NET, it's fast, simple, and free.
The anti-aliasing sucks, though.
Another question:
Where will you get textures (rather than textures from this file (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/americanfishguy/Buildings/parts_2_sept_2008.png).)
for textures, you can use google image search and just type in something like 'red brick wall'.
You'd then have to somehow change the perspective of the image, be it a function of the painting program or popping it in a 3D program.
or you can play around with the hue, saturation and colour balance of the textures that are already made.
Depends on the software you're using.
Try something like this: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=photoshop+perspective+tutorial -- only change the software to match what you're using.
http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/v/textures/
http://freegamedev.net/wiki/Main_Page
http://search.freegamedev.net/
http://opengameart.org/
Some are repositories, some have just collections of links to other collections. Lots of stuff...
Thanks but I don't have Photoshop.
And that's precisely why I said:
I had found this "The Magic Wand tool allows you to select an area of an image based on its colour". This tool is in GIMP too.
but does it work with the entire picture or just the connected sections?
if it's the entire picture, is it a new feature for gimp or is it an extension? because that's about the only thing that keeps me from using GIMP for editing renders.
what usually happens with renders, is that all the unwanted parts of edges will not be selected by the magic wand in GIMP, instead forcing me to erase these pixels one by one.
Paint.NET has a magic wand that can be selected on full picture (100%), some parts of the picture (20% - 50%) and at the same colour-or-some-sort (1% - 15%).
but is it on gimp?
Not the Magic Wand -- but a standard and different tool to select by colour imagewise (the button just on the right of the Magic Wand).
You mentioned using paint.net, so perhaps:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=paint.net+perspective+tutorial
I'll have to try that the next time I make something.
Thank you all for answering my questions.