Comments on: Lightweight Graphic Editors

Question: Lightweight Graphic Editors

signal — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:17:37 -0800

What lightweight graphic editors would you recommend?

My wife needs to do some graphic design (a mockup for a website). She has an old, slow, laptop (running Windows ME (yes, I know it sucks)).
What lightweight, not-too-steep-learning-curve (she has no previous experience with this kind of thing) program is out there? I'm thinking Freehand- or Fireworks-lite.
Free is good. Simple is better. Demands-almost-no-system-resources is a deal-breaker.

By: devilsbrigade

devilsbrigade — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:21:40 -0800

GIMP is always there. Its a little bit hard to figure out, but there are plenty of tutorials/howtos for common tasks. If you're afraid of GIMP but like Photoshop, I've heard GIMPShop is a useful tool. I've never tried it myself though.

Other than that, you can try searching Download.com, but there's a lot of crap to sift through there.

By: stew560

stew560 — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:53:06 -0800

Paint.net is a Windows-based, free "Photoshop Lite"
I like it...

By: Sonic_Molson

Sonic_Molson — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:54:06 -0800

A while ago I came across Paint.Net - it's great and it's free.

By: signal

signal — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:43:43 -0800

Hmm, Paint.net seems to require at least windows 2000, whereas her laptop is running ME. How is GIMP re: system resources?

By: Kellydamnit

Kellydamnit — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 06:50:38 -0800

Maybe an older version of Paint Shop Pro? I know they made one for even Win 3.1 machines- that's what I had in college. Perhaps you can get the disks for an older version on ebay.