Fandom Snowflake Challenge: My Fannish Wishlist

[rogueslayer452]

Challenge #05: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

01. Icons Of: Huo Wensi and/or Huo Wensi/Luo Fei from the cdrama Detective L.

02. Recommendations of programs to create fanwork. This is quite a specific one because I've been itching for years to create something, from icons and graphics to fanvids because I have ideas. I used to have a program ages ago (Microsoft's Picture It!) which I created various things including graphics for the fanmixes I did way back when, but that was on an old computer and that program has long since been discontinued and defunct. I've been attempting to look for comparable programs, however my findings lead me to being confused and overwhelmed and a bit apprehensive on the legitimacy since some places are websites only instead of a program you download onto your computer, and even then I don't want to download anything that is going to take forever to load or cause problems, which I know is a risk for anything these days anyway.

So, my request is mainly for the graphic makers and vidders in fandom: what programs do you use, your pros and cons for them, how much of a learning curve there is and if there is good tutorial out there. Note that I mainly use my laptop, I don't do anything on mobile.

Comments

[queenslayerbee]

I haven't done a lot of edits lately but one program I used a lot in the past is photoscape. Idk Picture It so no idea of how it compares to it, but although it was more limited than, say, Photoshop, it was more than serviceable, very easy to use, and came with some interesting pre-set options/filters/etc. One of my favourite things was how easy it was to make collages in it. I think it could make GIFs too, but I admit I didn't use that feature (only used it on static images) and have no idea of how well or poorly it works.

I should pick it up again, I got Linux last year and dropped a lot of programs, but I'm pretty sure this one has a compatible version.

ETA: forgot to say it's also free lskdkdk. Also I remembered I had a post where I talked a bit about it ans instagiffer, a gif maker program I used (also free, but no Ubuntu version and sadly I haven't found anything as good).