is microsoft paint a good or bad start.[people say good.], people say microsoft paint is a good start; Options

[KBA0261]

my friend said that paint was a good start for him,
and that he made all of his starter divs and crap on there.
i believe it is, but it takes patience, joy, and creativity.
he made these three items with paint.
i wonder what other people think.
picture shots of his divs:

http://www.zad.new-revolutions.com/images/...pzapzoomdiv.PNG

http://www.zad.new-revolutions.com/images/.../msmywaydiv.png

http://www.zad.new-revolutions.com/images/...cemyway2div.PNG

is it to you?
yes or no?
=]

[*tripvertigo*]

he must have copy/pasted the guitars from some other source in the first one.

but other than that, those arent too bad for Paint.

Paint isnt a bad program for people that arent too serious about digital art. But it takes like 20x longer to do something in paint that I would normally just do in Photoshop in 5 minutes.

[cori-catastrophe]

it's most certainly not anything great compared to photoshop, but it isn't bad either. that's where i first began when i got interested in making graphics. it just takes extreme patience.

[YourSuperior]

Most people use paint because they don't have an actual design program like Adobe Photoshop or Jasc Paint Shop Pro. It can't really be compared with Photoshop because Photoshop is a more complex program than MS Paint. But I say when starting web-design you should start off in Photoshop because it's the most popular design program and it's easy to use and you can do more in it than paint.

[michellerrific]

Even if those images are copied like tripvertigo said, those are actually not too bad. It's a good start, if you're a little less experienced with larger design programs like PS. That's where I began, on paint.

[DANCiNGPAPERCUPS]

i tried to use paint to start. but i don't have enough patience.
plus my dad went to school for graphic arts so we had all the programs anyways.

but it's def not a bad start if you take the time to learn how to do it.

[speakerboxx123]

i use paint, not the BEST quality, but it is good to start off with, oh and i know za!d, he's awsome, he also recommends paint. Just make sure you save you pictures as .png because thats the BEST quality your going to get[on paint].

[lovescream]

I started out w/ paint and yeah, IMO, it was good. Lot more to do with it than you think. Especially that combined with Microsoft Word (surprisingly) can do you a lottt.

If not, there's something close to a great start - free & better than regular paint + word combined.
You got PAINT.NET (google it) and GIMP, which a lot of people prefer. I know Gimp is probably better than paint.net, but it's harder to navigate IMO.

[randomchicka1994]

I'm impressed by them. :)

[RCKstarh]

its a good start if u dont hav any programs yet. nd yea, u need lots of patience

[taurus4321]

I use Paint.NET simply because my CD Drive is broken and I havent gotten it fixed yet...

It has the effects and adjustments, and it gets the job done, but i'm just used to paintshop & photoshop