* <> Why I draw with GIMP. First, the antialiasing on the ink tool is unbelievable. Even in indexed-color mode, with no antialiasing, it's a great tool; I have just two presets, and I do everything with them. My main preset gives me a fantastical virtual pen-brush, an in-between tool that's stiff under light pressure, flowing under heavy pressure — it's like a Hunt 107 nib that morphs into a #2 sable brush the harder you press. My other preset is for lettering: very "stiff", about 35° obliquity, oval nib. Second, the free transform tool makes it easy to do any scaling, rotation, shearing, perspective transformations that I need to, and the resampling algorithm is absolutely top-notch. Sometimes, in a pinch, I need to scale some line-art by just three-to-five percent; normally, that's a sure way to take the crispness out of lines while introducing some ugly artifacts, but the resampling in GIMP is so good that I don't have to fret over line quality loss much anymore. If I need my lines ~really~ crispy, I can do a very low-key unsharp mask filter after the transformation, but nine times out of ten it's unnecessary to do that. -- Excerpted from: PUBLIC NOTES (H) http://alph.laemeur.com/txt/PUBNOTES-H ©2017 Adam C. Moore (LÆMEUR)