What program so you use to make maps?
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EVERYONE WHO WANTS THE OLD XP-TYPE MSPAINT BACK
go to this link and follow the directions.
It doesn't work quite as well as it did on XP (I have a bit of trouble saving png files occasionally, but it's not difficult to save them as bmps and use post-Vista Paint, Paint.Net, or some other program to re-save it as a png), but it's Paint Classic, back in action.
I use it almost exclusively, with a bit of help from Paint.Net if I'm making an effects-laden map.
EVERYONE WHO WANTS THE OLD XP-TYPE MSPAINT BACK
go to this link and follow the directions.
It doesn't work quite as well as it did on XP (I have a bit of trouble saving png files occasionally, but it's not difficult to save them as bmps and use post-Vista Paint, Paint.Net, or some other program to re-save it as a png), but it's Paint Classic, back in action.
I use it almost exclusively, with a bit of help from Paint.Net if I'm making an effects-laden map.
i used to use MS Paint, but now i use Adobe Photoshop and OCCASIONALLY MS Paint; my use of Paint these days is if i want to replace some colors that would take too long to do in Photoshop (mainly because i have all of the colors in one layer and borders in another). for example, if i wanted to replace Anglo-American Dark Red with English Pink, i'd probably just include a single pixel of it on one part of the map and continue working with the darker red for the rest of the map; once i'm done, i save the map as a PNG or bitmap and then use the eyedropper and eraser (yes, the eraser) to replace all of the original color with the new one
if you really look, you'll be able to see some of the maps i made solely in MS Paint back when i first joined AH.com. that was also before i transitioned to the uniform worlda maps and instead used a format i found on Wikipedia. most importantly, Photoshop makes it alot easier to work with adjusting borders and such because i can not only use layers but also move the pixels and separate them by layer so, if i fuck up, i can easily correct it (in contrast, on MS Paint you can only undo the last four things you did)
if you really look, you'll be able to see some of the maps i made solely in MS Paint back when i first joined AH.com. that was also before i transitioned to the uniform worlda maps and instead used a format i found on Wikipedia. most importantly, Photoshop makes it alot easier to work with adjusting borders and such because i can not only use layers but also move the pixels and separate them by layer so, if i fuck up, i can easily correct it (in contrast, on MS Paint you can only undo the last four things you did)
Is this a Windows 7 and beyond thing, because my computer has Vista and it runs the exact same MS Paint as XP does/did.
Well, what I use is a lot:
- Microsoft Piant for simple things invloving basemaps etc. (rare)
- Paint.NET for the same, for layering and a lot more (often)
- Inkscape for vector maps, which gives good results but is a damn lot of work (sometimes)
- Gimp for special effects and if I just want to use something else for a change (seldom)
It surprises me that MS Paint is used a lot by you guys, or at least by many of you...
- Microsoft Piant for simple things invloving basemaps etc. (rare)
- Paint.NET for the same, for layering and a lot more (often)
- Inkscape for vector maps, which gives good results but is a damn lot of work (sometimes)
- Gimp for special effects and if I just want to use something else for a change (seldom)
It surprises me that MS Paint is used a lot by you guys, or at least by many of you...
Depends on what kind of map, but for the most basic ones I just use Paintbucket. Though I have been known to use Photoshop and Illustrator as well.
As far as I can tell, having gone from XP to Vista, the only difference is the transparent program box that everything has, Paint itself is exactly the same for me.
