Why spend hundreds of dollars for Photoshop?

Yes, Photoshop is probably the best image creation/editing program around but many people cannot afford such luxury. So here’s two great alternatives to get anyone started.

Gimpshop

Many people have heard about the open source program called GIMP. But many people have found it to confusing to get started with. So, several developers worked hard to created a friendly user interface, so that anyone would be able to work with the program. What they created was GimpShop.
Gimpshop is now a powerful Photoshop looking program that has far more features most people will ever need to use.

Grab this program and indulge your inner artist, or enhance your latest photograph.

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Inkscape

If you’re looking for a graphics program that lets you create illustrations and graphics, much like Freehand or Illustrator, then give Inkscape a whirl.

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

Inkscape’s main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development

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