Free software for making graphics? You got it!

[XANISA]

I guess it depends on how you want your thumbnail to look like. I use picmonkey.com for my thumbnail and I usually use it to add text to my photo and to resize it so that it can be uploaded as a video thumbnail.

But I believe you can add photos to a photo in picmonkey just like photoshop. The only difference is you can't edit the photos that you add in the sense that that photo cannot be edited to have a transparent background. LOL, does that make sense?

 

[QuiteGoneJin]

Pixlr can make anything into a png for transparency and layering, and its a free online program that requires absolutely no DLing. I suggest checking it out.

 

[cadetKei]

If you're looking for something simple and free then PicMonkeydotcom does its job. It has all sorts of filters, textures, little things you can add to make it look nice. But I guess for more serious things I use Corel Photo Paint, which is a pretty outdated program but I'm just pretty used to it.

 

[YaoiOrDie]

I used GIMP for the basics, but I used Inkscape for text.
GIMP is good for the basic stuff, but if you want shapes or text, inkscape is a better way to go. The vectors just look that much nicer than anything GIMP can do.

 

[UnderGroundTank]

It depend on what the user likes better. You can pick between so many differnt picture editing type software but the most common one are: Photoshop, Gimp, Pixlr, and paint.net. They are all free to use well to get Photoshop for free you need to use a older model which is C2.

 

[CaptainDelugo]

There's no good program to make thumbnails, it's you, the artist, who becomes good at it

I'd advise GIMP, it's practically a clone of photoshop but it's more user friendly and it'll give you almost the same features as photoshop does.
Also it's FREE! I make all my thumbnails in it and I personally think my thumbnails are not bad

 

[Akim bolduc dicks]

Pixlr!

 

[Brice]

As a graphics designer I use Cinema4D(3D program for mine craft models and text) and use photoshop to edit it and give it the pop. But GIMP is what I started with, simple but gets the job done. I have seen some great work done. You just need to know how to use it to its fullest extent! So yea Photoshop then GIMP

 

[MapleStream]

Gimp is probably the best and its free

 

[Nathan Williams]

Hi guys! so I'm currently using PicMonkey to create my custom thumbnails but I want to use another software to create them. Can you guys tell me what other software's there are?

Thanks