1. Adobe Photoshop Alternatives:
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Cost: US $699
Alternative: A) Paint.NET (erstwhile OSS – for beginners) | DOWNLOAD
Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, Paint.NET has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool.
It was initially developed and released by dotPDN LLC as completely open source, but due to breaches of license, all resource files (such as interface text and icons) were released under a Creative Commons license forbidding modification, and the installer was made closed-source.
It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Alternative: B) GIMP (for professionals) | DOWNLOAD
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible.
It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
2. Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW Alternative:
Adobe Illustrator CS5 Cost: US $599
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 Cost: US $499
Alternative: Inkscape | DOWNLOAD
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.
They also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development. They provide binary packages for Linux, Windows 2000/2003/XP (fully self-contained installer), and OSX (dmg package). It is successfully used on FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems too.
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In OS why not go for mint. Its small and really a good flavor of Unix. Media functionality are superb with this OS.
I believe open source will be the future, microsoft started the paid software trend but its the time to a free world where you can only charge for your service not for your product.
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