Making Tiles & Tuckboxes

[don2712]

Hi Everyone,

For those who may want to make your own tiles etc but do not have access to Photoshop, I just thought I might bring to your attention (assuming no one else has mentioned it)to a piece of freeware called Paint.net it was originally developed by a group university students building on Microsoft’s basic paint program and development has been ongoing. 
It is regularly updated and also has a help and instruction site if you have previously used Photoshop there should be hardly any learning curve involved.
I have Photoshop on my desktop and Paint net on my laptop (Photoshop is too resource hungry for my laptop) Paint is a very good program similar to Photoshop in many ways  it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Photoshop but then it doesn't cost several hundred dollars either.
Using Paint net I have designed and made several tuck boxes which I print onto 8.5"x11" self adhesive shipping labels, I stick labels onto the shiny side of old 'opened up' cereal boxes (doing my bit for recycling) and cut them out using a craft knife.
With Paint.net I can also add a watermark or color in the backs of either fan made or my own tiles.
Don

[CKorfmann]

Thanks for that info.  I'm sure it will be very helpful to a lot of us!

[chr15lynn]

Just to throw this out there....GIMP is also free.
www.gimp.org
 

[Gantry]

Yes, paint.net rocks

[edmil]

Just down loaded this along with a few add-ins - it's great. Thanks for the heads up on it

[elmendalerenda]

will try www.gimp.org cant use paint.net
now need a scanner for the tiles and see what can I do  :

[skipboris]

All the Ocean tiles and art were done with Paint.net