Re: Café Corner
Merry christmas all! 
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So I got the Intuos 4 pen tablet for Christmas, and as the owner I get to download 2 of these 3 programs for free:
Adobe Photoshop® Elements 8
Autodesk SketchBook Express® 2010
Corel Painter™ Sketch Pad
Thing is, I'm not sure which two to get. Thoughts?
DEFINITELY PHOTOSHOP!!!!!
Then get whatever that SketchBook thing is, because Corel Painter is pretty much a cheaper, bad version of Photoshop.
adobe photoshop (definite)
not sure about corel painter, it might be the same thing- i have corel draw on my other computer
and i have no idea what sketchbook is. maybe cartoon animation or something?
I GOT A CANON EOS REBEL T2i BABY! YES. YES. YES.
I had a dream last night that I was going to get sick, and I really felt like it. But now that I am awake I'm starting to feel sick. 
@Bricklord: To be completely honest, I hated Photoshop Elements. I always found myself going back to Gimp. If you can get your hands on Photoshop CS5, then that's a different story. Never used Corel or Autodesk.
I used Photoshop Elements 2.0 (circa 2002 a.d.) for years and always quite liked it. In my opinion it's miles better than GIMP's clunky and often glitchy interface, though I used GIMP for advanced functions, like the filters, sometimes. All three of those programs are, like, "lite" versions of the real software they represent, I guess it just depends how reduced in their features they are.
I got CS5 for Christmas (it's not so bad with a student discount) though so I won't be using Elements much anymore once I have properly learned it. I definitely ran into some of Elements' limitations often enough.
Merry Christmas and things.
For Christmas, I got an Intous4 medium size, Photoshop CS5, my brother got a new iPod Touch so I can have the older iPod Touch to my self, I got some drawing pencils and a kneaded eraser, and some bubble wrap.
Also, with the Intous4, I could download 5 programs free along with it, so I downloaded Photoshop Elements 8, Coral Painter Dketch Pad, Autodesk Sketch xpress 2010, some Wacom brushes thingy, and some other random program, all for free because they came with the tablet. Five programs coming with it for free is totally awesome! Though I'll most likely never use the Photoshop Elements 8 because I have CS5.
@Bricklord:
Elements is a scaled down version of Photoshop; completely workable, but keep in mind that it does lack a few options CS5 has.
Corel Painter itself is a good program for a tablet, with a lot of easy media settings. That said, I've never used Painter Sketchpad, so I can't really say if it is similar.
I've seen people do good things with Sketchbook, but again, I've never used it myself.
I would imagine all of these have trial/demo versions. My best advice would be to test them out and see what you think. I'd imagine you can do the most of the same stuff with any of them, with the biggest difference being the workflow. See which one feels best to you and go for it.
I finished a super-quick, really short animation clip to get into the holiday spirit. I animated it last night an edited it this morning
Here it is, if you wanted to see it.
Just started animating for a new short film. I guess I should do it more then once every couple of months, I am a little rusty!
Merry Christmas, all! I am typing this from my BRAND-NEW WINDOWS 7 LAPTOP! WOOOOO!
No, I am not a Mac purist. 
A tablet is one of the things I'm looking to buy eventually -- not sure on it though because I don't know if I'd benefit much from getting an Intuos over a Bamboo.
I got a lot of things for Christmas, but most improtantly...
I GOT TOY STORY 3 ON DVD OMG!
Merry Christmas!!
I got CS5 Production Premium!
I got... clothes...
I got a QC9P and Pinnacle 14!!!!!
I got... nothing.
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