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which is easier to learn?
amarthar:
With the abundance of online tutorials, I'd say that ANY graphics program is easy to learn.
AxelSteelBMX:
Only use MS Paint if you intend to do any custom sprite tweaking for cover screenshots. That's pretty much all it's good for.
I use GIMP. GIMP is pretty good at making covers. However, keep in mind that GIMP processes certain Photoshop layers differently, making working with most of the Cover Templates a tricky deal. GIMP can't edit the text layers in the PSD files, and you'll have to re-do those. Also, some gradient layers will not show up at all, meaning you'll have to re-build some aspects on your own.
larryinc64:
For basic editing, Photoshop and Gimp are not very hard, it is mostly learning where things that do stuff are and what they are called. How to use the tools are kinda self explanatory.
Try looking up "Photoshop basics" or something on youtube.