Graphic Software for stimulus design

[David McFarlane]

I try to stick to programming and let others do the graphic 
design.  But if I do get stuck with graphic design then I too prefer 
a vector-based product, so I might want to look at that winfig myself, thanks.

And as you say, sometimes it works well just to draw directly with 
E-Prime script.  I had been hesitant to do this for performance 
reasons, but then I figured out how to draw my shapes ahead of time 
on an offscreen canvas, and then use a little bit of script to just 
copy the predrawn figures onto the onscreen canvas where & when needed.

Finally, like Michiel I sometimes find simple old MS Paint good 
enough.  Also long ago I had a good experience with Paint Shop Pro, 
but I have not looked at that since Corel got hold of it.  Finally, I 
have tried a free product called Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net 
), that looks pretty good (at least my 12-year-old nephew found it a 
quite suitable substitute for Photoshop, downloaded & had it running 
himself in minutes after I told him about it).

Just my $.02.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Tobi 
><<mailto:tobias.fw at gmail.com>tobias.fw at gmail.com> wrote:
>our group is currently planning to buy some software licenses, among
>them software for stimulus design, i.e. mostly simple geometric
>shapes. I was wondering what other people might use for such purposes.
>Do you have a favourite software solution you might recommend?
>
>
>For simple geometric shapes, GIMP & Photoshop seem ill suited.  You 
>probably want something that is vector-based (until you export 
>bitmaps for E-Prime).  I use xfig on Linux, but it looks like winfig 
>might do a good job under MS Windows.
>
><http://www.schmidt-web-berlin.de/winfig/>http://www.schmidt-web-berlin.de/winfig/
>
>also, xfig itself can be installed on Windows under cygwin.
>
>Another consideration is using a programming language to generate 
>the shapes, but if they're simple enough to do that, you may as well 
>use E-Basic.  In the past, however, we have used R and MATLAB to 
>generate stimuli such as 
><https://sfari.org/image/image_gallery?img_id=50031&t=1238002532271>Gabor 
>patches and 
><http://www.rbej.com/content/figures/1477-7827-6-33-9-l.jpg>Fourier 
>descriptors.
>
>Only in the case of MATLAB would you need to pay for a license.
>
>Michael

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