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Deciding on the best digital painting software

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I am not an experienced digital painting artist.  This is an area I wanted to explore for the longest time but it is only now that I have had the courage to actually embark on it.   I have purchased my hardware already for digital painting - a WACOM Cintiq 16, which I bought two years ago but never really did anything substantial on it.  I purchased a painting software at that time called Paintstorm and have started some lessons from Udemy to help me navigate the app.  But after a few lessons,  boredom set in and other priorities ruled and so I shelved this project for some time. But the itch to paint came back.  For over a year now, I have been impressed by the paintings produced by a former high school classmate, and I convinced myself that I can do something like that.   I have noticed that a lot of painting (not digital) courses are available and even finding the right one for me was a struggle.  Anyway I later decided that I don't r...
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Backing up your downloaded installation files

 If you have or intend to have a few applications (in my case Windows), it will be wise that for you back up a copy of the downloads. Something can happen that you may need to rebuild your system and you have to transfer your apps to another device. I once spilled coffee on my laptop and it seems to be only by the grace of God that I have saved a great part of the downloaded files to easily install them in a hastily bought new laptop.  That was years ago.  That new laptop became old, at least 12 years old, and the number of apps installed, among other things, have proved to slowly kill my system.  Yes even with the best of your antivirus and malware protection, some nasty things seem to be able to come through unexpectedly, slowly or quickly bring your system down.  I have lost the wifi signal, then I started using the ethernet cable to make my connection direct.  That lasted for a few years and then one day, just a few moths ago, it wouldn't recognize the ...
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