Digital paint program for tail design

[Tom Cardwell]

What digital art programs are good for painting (airbrushing) a template tail?
My FinFolk tail production is scheduled for this month (NOW) and I have 3-4 different colors schemes and patterns I want to draw out to narrow it down to one. I asked Syren, they use photoshop. I have a very old Photoshop 7.0 version that might still work. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Mermaid Alea]

I like using Photoshop as well, but for me it is hard painting in Photoshop with a mouse. I like using a Wacom drawing tablet for that.
There are some good paint apps you can get for a tablet, and then you can use a tablet pen to draw with.

Another option is there are mers on here who will color the tail template for you - I can't think of mers who have offered this service off of the top of my head but hopefully they will see this thread.

Is there a particular reason why it has to be digital and not say watercolor or markers, etc? I am guessing you are wanting to make sure the colors look as true as they can so you want it digital.

[Mermaid Lorelei]

I always end up using picmonkey.com

[babsannee]

pixlr.com works great

[Spindrift]

Gimp is free