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-ArtRage: $25 A very good program for making more fine art style pieces.
-ArtWeaver: FREE
-Corel Painter: $419
-Gimp: FREE Cant afford photoshop? This is the next best thing for image editing.
-Paint.net: FREE
-Photoshop: $699 A well known image manipulating program which is great for digital painters as well.

VECTOR BASED: images are crisp and clean, no matter how far you zoom in.

-Flash: $699 essential for any flash animators/scripters, but is also a good software for drawing.
-Illustrator: $599 good program for any graphic designers who want to make vectorized work.
-SUMO Paint: FREE A browser based fairly powerful drawing and editing program.
-Liveswif: FREE Can't afford flash? here's your solution.

OTHER

-Blender: FREE 3D graphic application
-GraphicsGale: FREE Pixel art program
-iScribble: FREE a drawing/chat application which you have to create an account for in order to draw on your own, or collaborate with other artists. More complex than MS Paint, but still pretty simple.
-isketch: FREE a drawing/chat application based on pictionairy.
-MS Paint: FREE Very simple application that comes with all Windows Operating Systems
Apophysis: FREE A 3-D fractal program that can also be used for animating dynamic fractals.

PLEASE POST ANY OTHER WARES YOU KNOW ABOUT OR ANY CORRECTIONS!
I NEED YOUR HELP

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Feb. 27, 2009 | 9:24 PM lotusflaower says:

gimp is cool

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:18 PM Art101 responds:

I wouldn't know. A short summary of that program would be great!

Feb. 27, 2009 | 10:05 PM hotspotmar says:

theres liveswif vector flash program um thats all ikno second to post yeah

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:20 PM Art101 responds:

Yeah I heard about it through the Wi/Ht forum, and I believe it can also do animation?

Updated: Mar. 5, 2009, 3:22 PM

Feb. 27, 2009 | 11:22 PM InnerChild548 says:

But liveswf is more basic animation than art program.

Put in GIMP 2.6!

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:33 PM Art101 responds:

I'd say any program that lets you draw and be creative is an art program. and 2.6? Isn't it in the link?

Feb. 28, 2009 | 1:13 PM hippolordhom says:

paint.net

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:23 PM Art101 responds:

yes...it's on there. What about it?

Feb. 28, 2009 | 2:30 PM PaperWario says:

Particle Illusion is great to mess around with. Rather pricey, though.

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:45 PM Art101 responds:

Sounds like an interesting program, but I'm looking for more cheaper ones, because that's what people usually have problems with.

Feb. 28, 2009 | 4:47 PM Darkaxl says:

-Iscribble.net : FREE

An internet application run with (Java? please correct me if i'm wrong) Incredibly useful if your in a drawing mood and would like to share that "mood" with others alike :D . Inspiration is a MUST when joining the website.

Have fun.

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:46 PM Art101 responds:

great. Any other online drawing apps you know about?

Feb. 28, 2009 | 9:50 PM sir5000 says:

Don't forget Paint Shop Pro!

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:44 PM Art101 responds:

that's from Corel right? Their site is kinda hard to navigate so I just posted the general link

Mar. 1, 2009 | 4:04 AM P1raten says:

Sumo Paint. A Art Program made in flash:

http://www.sumopaint.com/web/

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:47 PM Art101 responds:

looks promising. Is it free?

Mar. 2, 2009 | 10:18 PM Dragonberry says:

There's a program called Anime Studio.

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:50 PM Art101 responds:

I see lots of art programs, but I want to focus more on building a library of free/well known programs

Mar. 3, 2009 | 1:16 PM NecroLordOfChaos says:

if your including 2D + 3D programs (ones with both in it) then I would add Blender3D

Mar. 5, 2009 | 3:53 PM Art101 responds:

kay

Mar. 6, 2009 | 6:29 PM mrwinneranimator says:

Maybe you could post maya as an alternative to blender.
It's basically the same thing but I could be wrong.

Mar. 7, 2009 | 12:12 PM Art101 responds:

the only reason I put blender was because it's free. If I put Maya, then I'll have to make a 3D section, but I think this is way too complex for people who don't even know about the well known programs or can't afford them.

Maya, 3D studiomax, autocad...they're not focused on drawing

Mar. 16, 2009 | 5:00 PM kernalphage says:

Autodesk SketchBook is another artist-oriented program:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/
index?id=6848332&siteID=123112
It's extremely lightweight; Not as many options and filters as P-shop, but that might keep you from being distracted.
and it's relatively cheap. ($100?)

I don't know too much about paint tool SAI
http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
but people might want to check it out just to say "i use Japanese software"

Mar. 27, 2009 | 6:04 PM 1Tyla1 says:

I think there's something wrong with LiveSwif. I downloaded, installed but every time I run it I get the same error or it just closes after about 2-10 seconds.

Jun. 8, 2009 | 3:15 AM tyler5 says:

Gimp: Open-Source Photo Editor. Almost as powerful as Photoshop
(I've seen better results with Gimp)

Jun. 20, 2009 | 9:00 AM Bendt says:

I had artrage 2 installed on my previous computer.
But the computer crashed, and I had to buy a new one.
And now the license code of my wacom, to install artrage, isn't lethal anymore.
What do I do? :(