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.

I did play around with layers. Apart from PhotoShop mysteriously 
changing the active layer every 3 seconds, it worked quite well. I had a 
go at scanning one of my drawings, inking it up, colouring and 
counter-shading 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?

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.)

I also had a go at reading the paper manual - but, apart from several 
*extensive* chapters on how to import, catelogue and organise your 
photos (yeah, like I care), most chapters were 1 page long and said 
"hey, yeah, there's this cool feature - see the online help for more 
info". Very useful.

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