CartoonM!ke wrote:Dogwaffle... ummm, Windows only. Amateur product, imho.
Owner is good at marketing, though.
thanks.
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Painter is a much better alternative, may cost a bit more, but it is multi-platform.
depends on a number of things.
Project DOgwaffle is much more than a Painter alternative. It also has tons of features for Animation. If you remember the Amiga OS, it had a very popular paint program, named Deluxe Paint, or D-Paint. That's the inspiration behind Dogwaffle.
It's also a function of what features you really need. Many have Photoshop and use 10% of it. The other times they'd like to use it it's for painting, and it's not trivial.
Check the testimonials about the $19 cousin to PD Pro, called PD Particles. It has just two things in mind: painting and painting with particles. It leaves the rest to the other apps you might already be using.
Or
artRage would do pretty much the same thing, and is also multiplatform. Has both a free version and a 20 dollar version. ArtRage also has a forum, much like this one, for support and such.
Yes, absolutely, give these guys a hand and try ArtRage. If you like it go for it. It will make a great comanion to your other tools. Try also the demo of PD Pro or the freeware version of Project Dogwaffle 1.2, and then ArtWeaver and Pixarra Twisted Brush. They all have their specialties and merits, and only you what you need and want or feel comfortable with in terms of interface and such.
http://www.thebest3d.com/pdp
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/demozone
http://www.artweaver.de
also more here:
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/links - lots of 'other paint' tools
If you're on Mac, there's fewer choices. But if you're on a MacIntel, and pur a dual boot in with boot camp, then you're back in biz.
Also, if you're on Linux, check the latest developments with Wine, they have made tremendous improvementsm, running Photoshop, World of Warcraft and other graphics intensive tools. I don't know yet if Dogwaffle will run there.