Wjhat sort of software/hardware do you use for gearting your graphics?
What would you suggest or avoid?

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Um, gearting?  Nevermind...  :-P

Just got a new scanner - HP ScanJet 4200Cse USB scanner.  I'm impressed 
with it so far, & the USB support is nice.  Now I get to go through 
boxes of photos and find stuff to scan...

The Adobe Photo Deluxe software that came with the scanner is a nice, 
consumer-level image editing program.  It will hold your hand through 
removing red-eye, dust and scratches, and has some basic special effects 
built in.  

However, I've had it installed for 4 or 5 days and it's already crashed 
my machine once.  Hopefully that won't be a regular occurance...

I have Photo Deluxe on my Windows 98 box, but for everything I might use it
for, I still use Photoshop. I've been using it since 2.0, and know my way
around it well enough that I don't care to learn a new interface and surrender
control.

Right now I have Photoshop 5 on my Windows machine, 3 on my Mac, and 4 LE on
my G3 editing system. The "limited edition", though, is far too limited for
my needs--generally it balks at most files that were created in the full
version of Photoshop. It can't even save an LZW-compressed TIFF.
 
As far as vector graphics go, I use Illustrator 5.5 at home and 6.0 at work.
They're up to at least version 8 right now, but I haven't had a compelling
reason to upgrade yet. Even 5.5 does everything I need it to, and I haven't
had a file compatibility problem with users of newer versions, so I'm not
bothering.

I have Paint Shop Pro 5, and FireWorks 2 (trial version)

Both run rather slowly on my P200 with Win95.  I have yet to experiment 
with GIMP on Linux.

Well...I'm using Photoshop 5 for just about everythign right now, I 
still need to pick up soem other stuff, but I'll get to it

I"ve experimented with the windows port of gmp and I was impressed 
enough to seriously contemplate building a linux box so that I could use 
a real version

PhotoDeluxe is good for people who've just gotten a scanner or digital 
camera, and need the hand-holding.  I prefer PhotoShop (although I've 
also been pleased with Paint Shop Pro) for most of my 'playing'...

I haven't played with the GIMP yet, as I don't have X running on my 
FreeBSD box yet...

I use Fireworks (note, no internal capital) daily, and version 2 has a lot
of nice enhancements.
 
I've never used Image Ready, Adobe's counterpart. Has anyone here?

hmm... well, my favorite is the GIMP under linux, and when i'm in winblows
or need to scan something (my UMAX Astra 1220P scanner isn't supported under
linux yet) I use either Photoshop 5 or Corel Draw 8 (actually, more corel draw
right now since i lost my PS disc).
Like I said, I have a UMAX Astra 1220P scanner, which is really rather nice
except for the lack of linux support and a slight red tint to the scans.
All of this is displayed on an ADI MicroScan 5GT monitor(17"/15.75" viewable
tirnitron running at 1280x1024x32bit) using a Matrox Millenium G200 8MB AGP
display adapter (really good, really cheap, and reccomended for everyone).
did i leave anything out? i hope not,
Dark Skyz

Hmm.  I was eyeing the Millenium G200, since it's said to be well 
supported in XFree86.  But right now my FreeBSD box is sitting on a 
shelf in the basement waiting for me to get time to play.

It is well supported. to qoute from XFree86 3.3.4 documentation/Information
for Matrox Millennium Users (http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.4/MGA.html):
This server is very well accelerated, and is one of the fastest XFree86 X
servers.

I have a 700MHz Athlon, a  32 MB ATI AGP graphics card, and 64MB of 100MHz
SDRAM (im planning to buy a 256MB DIMM when prices come back down). oh and
a 17" inch monitor (res 1024x768) which is way too small.

Im gonna go to COMPUS to get a Wacom drawing tablet...my mouse sucks. and
it comes bundled with Meta-creations "Painter" not a great as Painter 6
but hey, its "free" software. :)

that was suppose to be "COMPUSA" up there.

ok..I went out and bought an extra 128MB of SDRAM...to be honest..I can't tell
much of a differance, but then again, im not running anything memory intensive

hmm..I decided not to get the Wacom graphic tablet, cuz I saw a differant one
at Bestbuy for the same price but with a 6x8 active surface, compared to the
smallest wacom Graphire, 4x6. also im still using Windows 95..so USB support
isn't that great.

oh..I should mention I didn't get the other tablet either....I went home and
did some internet (re)searching. I think i am going with the Wacom Graphire.
http://www.tccomputers.com the place where I got my motherboard and Athlon
chip also sells the Wacom graphic stuff...but the list price is almost $15
cheaper than what I saw at the store....

oh...the added RAM does make a differance...I loaded 12 1+ MB jpg in Adobe
Photoshop...then was playing with the filters...opened a few AMAPI files
(3D stuff) and was messing with the rendering stuff...I also opened Netscape
and MSIE.....then checked out the Swap...it looked unfragmented, which im
guessing means it wasn't used. :)

oh over the weekend, I went to a computer show in my area and got bought a
6x8 Wacom Intuos drawing tablet...its pretty nifty. :)

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oh...since my last post I've added a Samsung 19" monitor and a Canon F60
all-in-one (copy/scanner/printer) printer to my collection of Hardware.

Right now I have 256MB of memory in my computer, I was working with Photoshop
on a 22MB TIFF and the rendering time for some of the filter was really slow.
I don't know if it would help, but RAM is so cheap now-a-days I thinking is
sticking another 256MB into my computer.

Bestbuy had SDRAM on sale so I picked up another 256MB SIMM.
That brings me up to a total of 512MB of RAM...hehe

I notice a big difference when using Painter Classic now, but as far as Filter
renderings in Photoshop, I don't notice any difference. I guess it's something
about the Law of diminishing returns...

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