#Gimp photshop free
#Gimp photshop windows

I'd much rather spend my spare time painting with real brushes and paint so the less time I have to sit in front of the computer the better. I used to love fiddling with every little thing when I was younger but now I'm almost 38 and just want everything as straightforward as possible. Thats why I use Unity and aside from them being industry standard apps, Photoshop and 3ds Max. I for one after working in games for 15 years find a lot of things tedious and want everything to be as easy as possible. There just isn't time to have to juggle micromanaged layers when you can quickly use adjustment layers to do the same thing. If you use Photoshop and adjustment layers a lot you soon get lazy. Also it goes over specular mapping with gimp. It uses hand recovered normals, as well as the high pass filter. And besides, take a look at this, if you think nvidia normal maps are good, crazybump destroys them.Īnd here is a tutorial which uses gimp and blender, the guy gets nice results from gimp here is the link for anyone who may be interested.

#Gimp photshop free

So for game design if you want to know which to get just think, if you have extra money and it wont break your bank go ahead and get photoshop, but gimp is free and will do 90% of what photshop can just in a different way, or a slightly less convient way.

#Gimp photshop windows

The windows are always in your face, and you have to slam them around as you work whereas in photoshop there is quite a clean workspace. The whole interface just feels a bit clunky,

Though one thing gimp has is it is pretty inconvenient. Alpha channels in gimp are also easy just layer-transparency- add alpha channel. Just overlay layers, and apply blur to them eventually you build nice normal maps. Normal maps are not a big deal as the built in nvidia pass pretty much sucks, hand recovering your normals is the best way to go. Though when it comes to the exposure setting in photoshop it can create powerful specular maps, not to say this can't be done in gimp it just needs to be done differently. Gimp covers color balance hue/saturation and many of the same quick adjustment features photoshop carries. Gimp can do normal maps just as well as photoshop, and can save as dds same as photoshop. Which are great for any cartoony looking game. In gimp you will feel the blow if you wish to use filters such as cutout, paint daubs, poster edges ects.

Photoshop +zbrush is the best workflow for any texture painter on the market. Gimp will do anything photoshop can except like it has been said you are far behind if you do texture painting.