Free software for making graphics? You got it!

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? :unsure:
 
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.
 
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 But I guess for more serious things I use Corel Photo Paint, which is a pretty outdated program but I'm just pretty used to it.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 :)
 
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
 
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 :D
 
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