Thursday, October 27, 2005

For you mac or linux users...

In my search for reasons to purchase Adobe CS2, I came across these excellent (free) replacements for Photoshop and Illustrator. The photoshop replacement is called GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/). It is a great photoshop alternative, offering some of the same look and feel. It doesn't have nearly all of the functionality, but its free. All you need to run in OSX is X11 available at http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11formacosx.html. As for an illustrator substitute, Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) can create images fairly intuitively. Also free, also requires X11. If you run Linux, also not a problem (and they are probably included with most distros anyway).

Have fun!

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