I have been editing textures packs for my personal use all my MC life. I usually use MS paint. now, i am trying to make my own pack and doing it with paint is torture. So I decided to look for a similar program.
What do you guys actually use? I just want to know so I don't buy the wrong stuff.
I use photoshop because is a tool i use for everyday work.... but its totally overkill for what we want to do. Well, it realy depends on what you really whant to do. There are some things on the program that might make your texturing easier and give you some extra options.
for the best power and capability, photoshop is the best option if you have money. Gimp is in second place and Paint.NET is in third. However, in terms of usefulness through simplicity, Paint.NET is the way to go
I make my pack with a mixture of Paint.NET and Gimp. I use Paint.NET for pretty much drawing coloring, and most everything on the normal textures like terrain.png etc.
I go into gimp whenever I'm making textures with "skins" such as the mobs or chests. I find using the tools in gimp are a lot more precise for those larger textures.
Also if I decide to release a 32x32 version of a pack, I would probably use Gimp a lot more. but for 16x16 Paint.NET is perfectly fine for 16x16 textures.
As said earlier. Microsoft Paint can't do anything transparent, any white space there is just that, white, not invisible. Same thing goes with Paint.NET, invisible is seen as a blue-gray grid.
What do you guys actually use? I just want to know so I don't buy the wrong stuff.
I go into gimp whenever I'm making textures with "skins" such as the mobs or chests. I find using the tools in gimp are a lot more precise for those larger textures.
Also if I decide to release a 32x32 version of a pack, I would probably use Gimp a lot more. but for 16x16 Paint.NET is perfectly fine for 16x16 textures.
As said earlier. Microsoft Paint can't do anything transparent, any white space there is just that, white, not invisible. Same thing goes with Paint.NET, invisible is seen as a blue-gray grid.
Good luck with your texture making
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