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[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

Squirreloid, you should use GIMP. It's completely free (in the sense of being open source, rather than not being good enough to charge for), is quite easy to use and is ideal for doing sprites.

So, of all the bizarre programs to use I was actually using Canvas - and enjoying the fact that its color tool allows you to *blend* colors by applying one on top of another. Made shading much more intuitive (to me at least).

The fact that it happened to be the best graphics program my computer currently had was also a plus. (I'll confess, most of the graphics stuff i've done in the last 10 years has been graph layouts for publication).

I'll look into GIMP at some point. I have some other things to accomplish this weekend...