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Okay, so I have used MGI Photosuite 4.0 since 2003 and it did everything I needed it to all without the layers that I find near useless. I can't stand Photoshop as it is far too complicated and takes too many actions to do what my MGI did in one simple click (for example; click on paintbucket, choose transparency, click the opacity if need be, click the area and done). It couldn't even make animated gifs the way I wanted. Illustrator is just... bad... on SO many levels. I heard Paintshop Sai is good but selecting objects and transparency and all that I can't grasp on there. I don't see a gif maker on it either, but probably because it is designed for a stylus.

Long story short, what do you all suggest for me to try? Porkman helped me with that Paintshop Sai but despite my laptop having a multitouch screen it can't use a capacitive stylus correctly. I really only need the program for coloring anyway since I draw on paper and scan it - you know; like a savage.

I am running a dell laptop with Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer version 11 (the reason why MGI PS 4.0 no longer works is it ran on I.E. v5 - 9 ).

And please, I am asking for pros and cons here. Sai seems like it would be incredible if the object selector and fill tools worked right. It tends to either fill too much or not at all (merely doing one pixel). It also lacked the gif making ability, unless I missed it.

Anyway, I am also curious as to what everyone else uses and why the preference - since not a lot have used my program I figured we could all learn about other programs many may not have heard about.
 
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Photoshop isn't really that hard to use when you've just learned some stuff. Check out a few tutorials before you jump in.. If you don't want to pay for photoshop you can olso try out Gimp or Paint.net. Used gimp a lot earlier, not sure if it has the paint bucket thingy you want, but worked fine when I used it earlier.. Not time to write too much about any of em right now, so yeah..
 
Photoshop isn't really that hard to use when you've just learned some stuff. Check out a few tutorials before you jump in.. If you don't want to pay for photoshop you can olso try out Gimp or Paint.net. Used gimp a lot earlier, not sure if it has the paint bucket thingy you want, but worked fine when I used it earlier.. Not time to write too much about any of em right now, so yeah..



Fair enough, I'll look into those. Thank you. Yeah I learned photoshop once they got rid of image ready as a secondary app that opened, but my old app was just so much simpler I never bothered with it and last I tried with 7.0 PhotoShop could only EDIT not CREATE animated gifs and even then only the top layer. My landlady has PhotoShop and I could get the disc from her but I am not certain which version... I think she said Pro 9.0 or something like that. I have heard of gimp but forgotten it, sounds good. Never heard of paint.net.
 
Photoshop isn't really that hard to use when you've just learned some stuff. Check out a few tutorials before you jump in.. If you don't want to pay for photoshop you can olso try out Gimp or Paint.net. Used gimp a lot earlier, not sure if it has the paint bucket thingy you want, but worked fine when I used it earlier.. Not time to write too much about any of em right now, so yeah..




Okay for an update, thank you. I just grabbed GIMP off their website and I love it so far! I just have to figure out how to turn OFF the color selection tool once I have it on lol
 
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