TabletPC Art software - which is the best

I'm days away from getting my new Toshiba TabletPC, and I looking for recommendations for a good Art program, like InkArt or ArtRage. What do you TabletPC'ers recommend?

Take a look at this thread, it provides a few recomendations.

Paint .NET -- free and simple, but good

Microsoft had a beta for Acrylic, which was interesting.  some kind of vector art thing I think

Everyone swears by Photoshop, but swear when they see the price

Gimp is another OSS image editor application.  Haven't used it in a long time.

DoomBringer wrote:

Paint .NET -- free and simple, but good

Microsoft had a beta for Acrylic, which was interesting.  some kind of vector art thing I think

Everyone swears by Photoshop, but swear when they see the price

Gimp is another OSS image editor application.  Haven't used it in a long time.

I think he means a drawing/painting program than a graphics package.

I like artRage

i like to use alias sketchbook
isnt a painting program more of a drawing program.

InkArt is based on ArtRage and is part of the Tablet PC Experience Pack. Aside from some UI changes and code tweaking, they're functionally identical. Alias makes a nice product but it's expensive. Paint.NET has come a long way. They're currently in late beta on a new version and it's been very stable on my M200.

I'm days away from delivery of a new Gateway S7200 widescreen myself.

DoomBringer wrote:

Paint .NET -- free and simple, but good

Microsoft had a beta for Acrylic, which was interesting.  some kind of vector art thing I think

Everyone swears by Photoshop, but swear when they see the price

Gimp is another OSS image editor application.  Haven't used it in a long time.

Paint.NET and Gimp- I haven't heard of them, I'll look into it.

Fractal Painter.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=130278

Interestingly, a google search for "fractal painter" turns up the C9 link above as #4 in the list.

Cairo wrote:

Fractal Painter.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=130278

Interestingly, a google search for "fractal painter" turns up the C9 link above as #4 in the list.

The thread you mention is what sparked my interest in acquiring a good art program!

One thing I am unable to find who makes Fractal Design Painter?  Is that an old name which was changed to just Painter?

It's "Corel Painter" now, I think.
http://www.corel.com/painterix/home/index.html
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Products/Display&pfid=1047024307407&pid=1047025757941

It's Hereto I think I'm in Medes

Red5 wrote:

Toshiba Tecra M4
Intel Pentium M 2.13Ghz 533Mhz FSB
XP 2005 TabletPC Edition
1 Gig RAM
nVidia 128 MB 6600 TE
60 GB HDD
Wireless built-in
BlueTooth
14.1" display (1400 x 1050)
DVD dual layer burner
3 USB
Infrared
FireWire
SD Card slot
1 PCI Slot
S-Video Out
Monitor Out DVI
Lan
Modem

Ah, the Tablet honeymoon...

blowdart wrote:

Woah, that's better specced than my current laptop (aside from the screen).

Now why the heck can't Tosh sell decently specced tablets over here (not that I can afford one right now anyway )

For a small fee, I could purchase it for you and ship it your way.

OK, what is the secret to posting in INK?

The first day I tried it, i was able to get it to work by adding channel9 to my trusted sites in IE.
Now today, i attempt to post in ink and I get the standard message:

Please install the Tablet PC SDK (1.7) then come back and ink away!
 
Can someone give me a clue here?