

#Paint.net gif how to#
There are big thick books on how to use Photoshop. Not a huge human sacrifice, sure, but something you have to learn. In Photoshop you get one “redo” then have to go into the history and fool around with that. As one example of what I mean, on I can just keep hitting Ctrl Z (just like in all Windows programs, notice?) and delete changes one by one, all the way back. For one thing, its vector structure makes it really bad at shrinking picture size. And PS has some glaring problems for people like us. Almost anything you need to do can be done easier with free programs, and often better. For awhile I only used it to bevel type and the “smudge” tool. Adjust the quality, size, and animation of your GIF. Click the 'Save as type' drop-down menu and select 'GIF.' 6. I used to use it and considered it a pain in the butt. Open a file that you want to make into a GIF in Paint 3D. It’s a hard program to use, and is set up kind of awkwardly and bassackward. That should be enough to convince you to skip it and look elsewhere. Most would say that getting what you need runs around $700. This is a professional program that costs anywhere from $300 to $1000.

The first thing you always hear when asking about doing your own artwork (or googling for suggestion on how to do something) is Adobe Photoshop. Let me say a word about programs that aren’t free and cheap. The programs I suggest are all free, or at most very cheap. As with so many other things that writers have to learn aside from writing these days, a main issue is knowing what to avoid.Īs promised, I’m going to tell you about the programs to do this stuff with, and a bit on how to maximize your use of them. This is actually not a problem, but it’s not hard to run into advice and situations that make it seem like a problem. One salient fact about doing graphic design–in this case making your logos and covers and other pictures writers need to go with their thousand words–is that you need to have a graphic program to do it with.
