EDUCATION Beyond Paint Rosa/eeWoffe DePaul University This is another installment in the continuing "scrounge series" that addresses the problem platform price disk paint features formats la)~rs r~t~loglng phatxqln~hlc lillees yes exotic fillers built-in textures b~tch processing Instadl~tinn feS fes ~ms GIMP Unix free 50 HB yes;cusrominble approximately25 m.s Graphics Workshop Win ].I/951NT $40 B HB NIH IrnqeJ Scion Imib,e Hac,Win 95/NT free 5 MB yes Paint Shop Pro Webfx all free none Win 951NT $99 I0 ME yes;ru~.omi~ble 40 yes 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. A t 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
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