Share This With Your Grandchildren
Do you have any grandchildren that have taken classes in school where they have used Photoshop? And then your grandchild wants to buy it but can’t because Photoshop is so outta this world expensive? If so, there’s an alternative. It’s free, easy to use, has many of the same options as Photoshop, and is web-based. And, did I mention it’s FREE?!?!!
This alternative is called SUMO Paint and you can find information about it at http://www.sumopaint.com. This is a program that you use through your Internet browser. As someone who owns and uses Photoshop, I’m impressed with this program.
It has many of your typical Photoshop tools (lasso, brush, pencil, paint bucket, eraser, clone, text, blur, smudge, crop, eyedropper). There is one different tool — the symmetry tool. When you draw something, it will draw the exact same thing in five other spots in your blank graphic. Kinda fun.
I made this with the geosphere tool.
It has basic brushes and then some basic brush shapes: heart, cube, moon, various flowers and leaves, sumo, sumo cat. It has a few 3-D brushes: geosphere, heart, tube cone, teapot, glass sumo. And then there’s the animated brushes: car, squidy, explosion, snow, and ghost to name a few.
I did this with the star brush. (I held the mouse down as I moved it to the right which made it ‘fatter’.)
This is what I got when I used the star tool and moved the mouse to the left and had the shape trails feature turned on.
Watch this short video to see how it works.
Tell your grandchild (who wants Photoshop) about SUMO Paint and you will instantly win tons of brownie points with her! And then you ought to try it out, too. Play with it, have fun with it, create with it. Let your inner child go wild. Then, share your creation with your grandchild. It will be fun to see what you each create.
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