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It would be helpful if you stated what kind of art you were looking to do. Logos/UIs or illustration? I don't know much about the former (though I suppose Photoshop or Gimp would work best) but I have been doing digital illustrations for years and I have the same tablet.
Definitely find something with a stabilizer. I find for art that is drawn in a more cartoon/comic/anime/whatever style, Photoshop is hard to understand and overly complicated for that purpose. It also takes forever to open even on good computers. If you're just going to draw, stick to cheaper programs or you're wasting your money. My personal favorite art program is Clip Tool Studio. I think it runs around 80$ but I bought it a while go.
Paint Tool Sai I got for free. Sai was my first art program I used so it's very beginner friendly. It's Japanese and I don't think it ever got an English release so the only way I could use it was to download English hacks of it. However that was a few years ago before I found CTS so that might be dated information. Honestly I don't think the company really cares btw. Nothing ever got taken down and it was even put up on places like Mediafire. If you don't give a shit, try it out. If you like it, save up money and buy the English CTS which is like Sai but better.
If you don't want to do that, there are free programs modeled after Sai and CTS that are aimed for tablet illustrators. I'm pretty sure these have stabilizers. I don't like them too much but that's probably because I am so used to more expensive programs to take that with a grain of salt.
http://firealpaca.com/en (if you've seen the RCDart thread this is what she uses)
https://krita.org/en/
And about Gimp which you mentioned earlier, it's not optimized for drawing/tablet use. That's more for photo manipulation and the logo/UI stuff. It can be good to do some edits on a final piece you made in another program, though. Other than photoshop, programs tend to be steered towards either drawing or photo editing (which is probably why ps is so complicated).
Definitely find something with a stabilizer. I find for art that is drawn in a more cartoon/comic/anime/whatever style, Photoshop is hard to understand and overly complicated for that purpose. It also takes forever to open even on good computers. If you're just going to draw, stick to cheaper programs or you're wasting your money. My personal favorite art program is Clip Tool Studio. I think it runs around 80$ but I bought it a while go.
Paint Tool Sai I got for free. Sai was my first art program I used so it's very beginner friendly. It's Japanese and I don't think it ever got an English release so the only way I could use it was to download English hacks of it. However that was a few years ago before I found CTS so that might be dated information. Honestly I don't think the company really cares btw. Nothing ever got taken down and it was even put up on places like Mediafire. If you don't give a shit, try it out. If you like it, save up money and buy the English CTS which is like Sai but better.
If you don't want to do that, there are free programs modeled after Sai and CTS that are aimed for tablet illustrators. I'm pretty sure these have stabilizers. I don't like them too much but that's probably because I am so used to more expensive programs to take that with a grain of salt.
http://firealpaca.com/en (if you've seen the RCDart thread this is what she uses)
https://krita.org/en/
And about Gimp which you mentioned earlier, it's not optimized for drawing/tablet use. That's more for photo manipulation and the logo/UI stuff. It can be good to do some edits on a final piece you made in another program, though. Other than photoshop, programs tend to be steered towards either drawing or photo editing (which is probably why ps is so complicated).
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