A Squarecan

Hey every one I dont post often, but i search the forum often. I was curious... I have been using photoshop(7) now for almost a year and that all I have used til about a week ago. I have started using Teeragen for sceneif effects and i thought WOW! this is A LOT easier then using photoshop for everything. So my question is what are some other programs you use along with photoshop to achieve your pictures and what are they designed for? I do a lot of differnt stuff and using photoshop to create some things are harder then they could be with other programs.

Thanks
Keith

Shaun

Bryce 5 (3D program) for backgrounds
Artmatic (Mac) for odd patterns
Extreme 3D2 for solids and backgrounds;
and I have some others I haven't got round to learning yet....

Josh

Every good painter can paint a nice landscape in Photoshop and a beginner has to drop some 3D models in a Terragen/Bryce/Vue scene. Does that make Photoshop harder to use for landscapes?

It's in your hands and mind, not your program...

Rick

Yes it can be done in Photoshop, but most designers use many programs to get the effect they are after.

Using Vue, Terragen, Bryce or Poser does not make a person a beginner.

It just makes them a more diverse designer.

A Squarecan

Josh I mearly said it was easier with other programs. Why make things harder then they have to be especially when i am doing it just for the hell of it.

Keith

Alistair

progs I use with Photoshop:
Poser 4
Terragen
Texture Maker
Wings 3D
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And stock photos from Deviantart.com
and sxc.hu

Erik

Ahhh...Shaun...I envy you.

www.mkzdk.org having been one of my favourite websites since I first had a puter a few years back, I quickly discovered the link to the apps used. And ArtMatic fascinated me from the start. Unfortunately, it was only for mac...
I contacted Eric Wenger, but he answered it would not be recoded for PC. Which led me to www.fractalus.com, and from there to Ultrafractal.

To answer the question, my main programs apart from Photoshop7 are:

-Ultrafractal with Apophysis (Win only)
-TextureMaker (the former Infinite Textures, Win only)
-Cinema4D 8.5 with Bodypaint
-Poser5 (which I hope to replace one day by a better app)

One of the main advantages of 3D is that you can create a form (mesh) separately from its texture, that you can make an infinite variation of light playing on the surface, and that you can move, turn around and twist your object to look at it from all possible angles.

apart from that, I also use some plug ins for Photoshop, although not very often, and I also have a font manager installed (Extensis Suitcase), Irfanview, which replaces with flying colours the Photoshop Browser, Dreamweaver and Fireworks, and XaraX as vector app. And the free Abiword to type an occasional letter.