From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 18 13:25:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06589 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 13:25:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06542 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 13:25:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA07325; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:24:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:24:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor Reply-To: Brett Taylor To: george cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question In-Reply-To: <000501bd9ad1$145b1dc0$c3b010cb@pro-95> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE; BOUNDARY="----=_NextPart_000_000D_01BD9B24.A919A500" Content-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BD9B24.A919A500 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-ID: Hi, On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, george wrote: First, please format your messages to be 80 columns wide or it makes things difficult to read. Second, HTML is a bad idea (at least it came through as an attachment, but I believe it was just a copy of your ASCII message). Your mail program should be configurable to these standards. -snip machine descriptions: these sound fine- > The main software that I use is Photoshop 4.01, K.P.Tools 3. Bryce3D & > Ulead Photoimpact, Cool 3D, etc.(graphic artist). Here we run into a moderate problem. There is not a lot of graphics software available for the free Unices. That said, The Gimp is a sort of combination Photoshop/Illustrator piece of software that works fairly well for what I've used it for and it might suit your needs. There's an associated vector drawing program, GYVE, which should complement Gimp. You can check The Gimp out at: http://www.gimp.org/ In terms of 3D possibilities, Blender is now out for FreeBSD and although I haven't tried it, what I've heard suggests it is nice. You can check out Blender at: http://www.neogeo.nl/blender.html It may be that that these programs won't suit your purposes in which case switching to FreeBSD may not be that useful to you. If it doesn't seem that FreeBSD is what you need, you might think about trying a Mac. There are certainly many graphic artists who use Macs and you could then still have Photoshop, KPT Bryce etc... Feel free to ask further questions if you have them. Good luck! Brett ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BD9B24.A919A500-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message