Good evening

I was randomly browsing Jsp and i found out that the graphic design forum looks quite cool and that it would be awesome to be able to do this on your own..So my question is how to get started the best way?

i heard there are some useful tool (got no money to spend on them :/) like photoshop or gimp..please tell me which is the best and for free .
And i heard about pen tool but i got no clue what this tool does.

So please give me a short but informative introduction

Every help is appreciated

if u dont wanna spend money on a gfx program, i heard gimp is free. as of now, im using photoshop cs3. some people says photoshop is still better than gimp cause u could do alot more. as of how to do things. when you get the program, mess around and c what tools there is in the program before looking into tuts so u would know what there discussing.

gl.

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the pen tool is a tool in photoshop/many other graphic programs

Photoshop is by far the best and most useful program to have for graphics. GIMP is a good free alternative, but with all the cracks on the internet there's really no point. The pen tool is just one of the many tools that Photoshop has.