Software to create game graphics
The following software are used for creating the game graphics:
- Photoshop: When dealing with image editing tasks, Photoshop is universally considered the best available software. It can work with and export to any kind of image format, it offers the largest selection of tools to edit images and an endless number of tutorials are available on the Internet to learn anything you may need to do with it.
All this power, on the other hand, comes at a price. The full Photoshop C6 license costs $699!
- DeBabelizer: Photoshop is not the only choice, naturally. Other options are available. One that may be not popular but which is very good, especially for compressing images, is DeBabelizer (http://www.equilibrium.com/debabelizer/). It is an image editing software with almost the same capabilities of Photoshop, but it creates lighter
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files. - GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP): Another interesting possibility for those who follow the path of open source software is...