What's the best freeware program for creating artwork?

Question

I have an image that I want to draw on, also I want to change the background colour. I know I could use MS-Paint to draw the overlay and then merge them both together, but there's gotta be an easier way. Any ideas anyone?

Answer 1

All of the below are free.
They have varying capabilities and complexity, try a few until you find the one that works best for your needs.

http://wang.zhenzhou.googlepages.com/
http://www.photobie.com/
http://www.plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/
http://www.photofiltre.com
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/PaintNET/1096481993/1
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Project_Dogwaffle/dogwaffle.html

Answer 2

There is a better way, its called Paint dot Net. And you might also want to check out Deep Paint.
If you try The Gimp I recommend you get the manual, try Amazon.

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/ -Paint.net Paint with layers.
http://www.irfanview.com - useful graphics tool
http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-2191_4-10398243.html - Deep Paint
http://www.gimp.org - Like Photoshop 7
http://www.inkscape.org - vector image tool

Answer 3

rather corel draw is the proper application to do trademarks the position they are regularly utilized for internet and for print and the major benefit is you will get the emblem at any length with none disturbance contained in the image ... in preference to photoshop, kind author its the proper i knew

Answer 4

Microsoft Expressions
Adobe Element 4



and this is neat.

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

Answer 5

do a search on cnet . com
they have loads to choose from

they have a good paint type program

Answer 6

try Gimp 2. it's freeware and down-loadable from loads of sites, i used download.com to get mine. One you get the hang of it, it's a damn fine package.