Thread:Sorairo/@comment-226878-20131022220432/@comment-15108745-20131023182027

I don't think I've ever heard of PhotoImpression. From what I can see through a quick google search, it's not so much an artistic/drawing/illustrating program as it is more of a photo touch up software. Perhaps it would be better to familiarize yourself with a more advanced illustrator program? Correct me if I'm wrong about PhotoImpression, by the way...

Some free options for illustrating software include GIMP, Inkscape, and Paint Tool SAI. Those are the ones I know off the top of my head. I usually use GIMP quite a bit. It's essentially Photoshop for free, though a few of the very advanced features are missing. And it's also quite customizable. Inkscape is mostly for creating vector illustrations so it's a little more limited than GIMP. I honestly have never used Paint Tool SAI but from what I can gather, it seems a lot like GIMP. It's used by a lot of fans on DeviantART to draw some manga style illustrations.

Once you get GIMP or if you decide to spend the hundreds of dollars on Photoshop, what I would do is trace the screenshot and erase Ozpins silhouette by just manually using a brush and selecting the color of the gear and coloring over him. Then rotate the gear around so that it's a full gear since part of it is cut off by the screen. After that I would load it into Inkscape so that I could convert the bitmap image into a vector image (which is a conversion that you kind of have to fiddle with and can be problematic) and then scale up the vector image to any size I want.

It's either that or just freehand the whole thing just by looking at the screenshot as a reference. I have a suspicion that's what hjpenndragon did......