Beyond paint
Rosalee J. Wolfe · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1998
This is another installment in the continuing "scrounge series" that addresses the problem of locating and acquiring graphics software and hardware for classroom use given the realities of tight resources.The last issue discussed free and low-cost 3D graphics modeling and rendering packages.This article covers several freeware and shareware options for digital painting and image processing.Although free paint programs come bundled with several popular operating systems, they are relatively limited in what they offer to students.This article compares features and costs of several packages that provide more than just the basic pen and fill commands.At a Glance Table I is a quick comparison of five paint and image processing packages and includes GIMP, Graphics Workshop for Windows, NIH Image/Scion Image, Paint 5hop Pro and Webfx.The software spans all of the commonly available operating systems and offers a wide range of features.