Then there’s also a bunch of companions or competitors. You have the GIMP, you might also enjoy ArtWeaver. http://www.thebest3d.com/artweaver and http://www.artweaver.de – they also have a plugin to Dogwaffle – which allows you to send images back and forth including alpha (unlike the Clipboard) without saving to file. Works with PD Particles too.

#109/TWNG:
you’re very welcome. …and Yes, we’re human indeed ;-)

#101/Weezie: really sorry it didn’t work on your system. Was it a corrupted download? did you use a download ‘accelerator’? If you’re curious as to whether it could work right with proper download, try the demo version of PD Pro 3.5 or others. http://www.dogwaffle.info/dogwaffle/demozone – please let me know if you can’t get it to work. You might have other software interfering, perhaps an antivirus/antispyware, or a real malware…. what’s your security software?

#108/Harry: thanks,although we rarely like to call Dogwaffle an alternative to PS. Even though it’s flattering, we’d be comparing apples with oranges. Of course, if you prefer oranges… LOL

Photoshop is great for lots of pro level photo compositing work, and yes some artists also do a great job at painting with it, but it wasn’t designed for painting at first, and it took to version 5 or 6 if I recall before they had someone decent brushes. What makes PS what it is are layers. Layers and PS filters. 8bf filters. If you don’t get PS layers you can’t do real work in PS. And I mean advanced, sophisticated types of layers, effects layers, 3d layers…

Dogwaffle is not focused on layers. It’s focused on brushes. EVen something like Control-C doesn’t copy from selection to clipboard… it uses the brush instead. (custom image brush). And Dogwaffle doesn’t stop at just 1 image: animated brushes can contain main images, aka frames, hundreds of them. In fact the latest plugin released a few days ago loads an AVI video directly to the animbrush.

It’s different in design, in scope, in focus and in ambitions. If you like Dogwaffle, nothing should prevent you from still also liking Photoshop. In fact we’d much prefer having that you find creative ways to use both together. We have a bunch of tutorials showing how to use PD Particles with PS, PSP and other tools: http://www.thebest3d.com/pdp/tutorials – including 3D tools Carrara, Poser, Bryce and more.

They’re all just tools. Let’s see what YOU use them for ;-)

Thank you dogwaffle, for that unprecedented, unexpected bonus.

GOTD offers and its concept are already unique and much appreciated, but your readme.txt addition truly raised the bar, and I hope that other developers may take note and follow suit. Certainly it is a plus for us, as downloaders … but there is another side: The very fact that a company would choose to do that, unbidden, in such largesse, places it *immediately* on my list of companies whose future products I’m most likely to pay for, and companies I’m most likely to recommend first to friends and associates.

Why? Because your readme additions made me feel as if you cared about your product being able to address my needs … and even the tone of your words there (our sporadic newsletter, etc.) made me chuckle and feel you were as human as me: flawed at times but eager to please.

Thank you, dogwaffle and GOTD.

TWNG