>> I didn't get very far with the GIMP. The extreme uncontrollability of 
>> the lines made me give up rather quickly. PhotoShop seems much better 
>> in this regard, although I still couldn't get decent curves out of the 
>> cheap optical mouse.
> 
> One of the reasons I prefer dealing with vectors.

Yeah. That and the fact that you can continually *change* the line after 
you've drawn it...

>> One thing I did have a problem with is that the brush tool draws 
>> beautifully anti-aliased lines, but then the flood fill tool doesn't 
>> fill right up to the edges. It leaves a useless white gap around the 
>> edges of the lines. Presumably there's a simple way around this?
> 
> Yeah put your brushed lines on one layer and the flood fill on another, 
> not sure of the defaults in Elements, but you can set the background of 
> any new layer to transparent. So let's say you create your brush strokes 
> on one layer then add in a graduated flood fill on another, move that 
> layer beneath the brush stokes and the antialiasing will allow the fill 
> to come through. Then add another graduated flood fill in another layer, 
> put it between the other two and change its overall transparency. :-)

Um... how do you fill in a shape if it's in another layer?

>> Also, I haven't yet figured out how to fill in the counter-shading 
>> without accidentally drawing over the outlines. (But I didn't really 
>> look into it very much, so it might be something simple.)
> 
> Outlines on another layer. If in doubt layer it.

Hmm, interesting...

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