patience...what's that?

[joflasher]

So I've forgotten how long it takes to get anything posted on an internet gallery. My submission to Epilogue have been sitting there for days now, approval still pending. All they have of mine so far are two older images, both of which most of you will have seen. My butterfly and my centaur pictures, both of which I drew in college. The centaur won't make it in, since one of their "quality" requirements is that every piece have a background. Oh well, that picture has been what I consider finished for years now.

Elfwood, on the other hand, gives everyone a tracking number and works on FIFO bases. I'm currently something like 1587th out of 1819 galleries that need to be reviewed. Dumb game. I need a patience pill or something.

I also need a decent image editing program. The scanner that wandelrust was nice enough to lend me comes with basic scanning software but I have nothing to shrink things with that doesn't pixilate everything. Also, if I scan at a very high DPI, then photoeditor and MS Draw can't open the files since they are "too big". I'm trying to find out if there is a decent substitute for Photoshop out there...any advice would be appreciated.

Comments

[nuns.livejournal.com]

Have you tried using GIMP as an image editor?

[mj2q.livejournal.com]

I haven't used it too much myself, but Gimp is the first thing that comes to my mind when someone asks for a free Photoshop replacement

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Would love too...except the scanner is hooked up to a MS box and GIMP, as far as I know, only runs on linux derivatives. This shouldn't be a problem but of course it is. My alpha runs linux but its being a pain in the ass and won't talk to either the scanner OR josh's MS box.

I'm thinking it might be cheaper and quicker to buy a CD burner for josh's MS box and use that to transfer the images over to the alpha. If I can get them over there, I at least have a decent copy of XV to do resizing with.

Still won't help me to piece together the big images, though...