Skitch!

[brucegulick]

I was surprised to see no mention in this forum of one of my favorite apps, Skitch..(http://skitch.com/)

It's a super spiffy little program that lets you draw clean and fast, save as .pngs, take screenshots and post them to the web, and a lot more, and best of all it's free.

I did a quick intro video (http://www.vimeo.com/8176337)

Hope this is helpful, I use it every day and have begun to think of it as a sister app to Anime Studio!

[jeff]

Thanks for the link, but it appears to be a Mac only application which I am afraid limits the number of potential ASP users.

Jeff

[brucegulick]

It's made by the same people that make Comic Life, so I had assumed a Windows version existed.

It really doesn't do anything you can't do in other apps (honestly I've just been using Anime Studio for everything recently), but it's a fun and quick little app that also takes screenshots and lets me add text and arrows quickly and easily.

http://skitch.com/signup/notifywindows/

Looks like you can sign up here to be notified when the Windows version comes out..

[jeff]

There's a nice Windows paint program called Twisted Brush that is very full-featured even in its free version:

http://www.pixarra.com/product.html

Well worth a look. It can export transparent backgrounds when you save as PNG files, so is ideal for importing into AS. Downside is not much in the way of documentation so you need to go through their video tutorials to get familiar with it.