Martyn Drake writes:

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CinePaint? I'm trying to persuade the texture artists at

work to try and

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move over to it rather than use Photoshop under Windows -

we're seeing more

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Windows boxen creep in because of ruddy Photoshop.

You could take a look at the Mac under MacOS X. Not Linux but a rock solid Unix with:

Oh don't worry, people working in the effects industry are already looking at Mac OS X, (not necessarily through choice) most of the high end effects software is in some way owned by apple....