I use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
I mostly draw or trace a scan in Illustrator and then I add shading, highlights, text and such in Photoshop.
Never used Open Canvas. 
Well... Try Gimp. It's free and it's got quite a lot of capabilities, or so I've heard. I didn't really get into the program and begin to use it.
What I use is... Uh, MS Paint and Paint shop pro.
Rowr has some info up about Open Canvas, let me see if I can find it.
Rowr's DA journal about Open Canvas.
Sorry, that's all the info I have.
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Ditto. Never tried Open Canvas.
I use paintshop pro and painter (on occasion). Open canvas is a program that lets you paint and chat at the same time. Klar is a deviant that uses OC almost exclusively and is AWESOME if you want to see some results.
Hmm.
I'm a really big fan of digital painting but not so much chatting while doing so.
Is it like Oekaki?
I use Photoshop almost exclusively. I do have Painter, but I'm not very good with it.
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I have a hard time replicating the painted look in Photoshop 
Open Canvas - Wiki explanantion
Open Canvas - free trial / actually shareware...
As for that painting quality, that's the proverbial white whale... I think you have to know how to paint to begin with... not to sound condescending... anyway I've always like this mood painting tutorial by industry concept artist, Jason Manley
Good luck.
Yeah, I will probably stick with Painter9
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There is a plugin for Photoshop called Deep Paint that's supposed to replicate natural mediums. Can't vouch for how well it works, since I've never tried it.
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Indeed. The once and future King and Queen programs.
Learn them.
Use them.
Love them.
I like Illustrator, but I pretty much only use it for Vector art.
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You don't know what your missing Dirtwolf... click the brush tool twice till the properties box opens, then uncheck "keep selected", and DRAW with the brush tool like a real brush, with perfect curve correcting precision...
Check out this industry pro who does it: Brian Denham, he does Iron Man...
I use a white brush for corrections, like instant white out, and then I export the finish into a jpg which I color in Photoshop. You may have to expand your drawing to resize the size of the artboard, but if you select the whole thing with the black selection tool, you can hold shift and decrease the size without line weight loss. But you probably know that part if you've done vector art...
Anyway, have fun!
LJ
At the moment, I have Painter9 and Adobe Photoshop CS2. I like them both, and find to get what I want out of my artwork (the little I have with the lack of inspiration I'm struggling with) I have to use both.
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I've seen a lot of stuff about Open Canvas.
What programs do you recommend? Do you use more than one on a piece? And most of all.. What the [censored] is Open Canvas