Home :: OneCommunityRanch.org - Open Source Blueprint for a Sustainable Civilization. 10 Free Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Creative Suite. Posted 06/21/2011 at 1:50pm | by Florence Ion When there's just not enough cash in the bank and you're in a bind, the last thing you're able to do is drop a ton of money for pricey software like Adobe Creative Suite. And sometimes, the professional-grade stuff is too much overkill for simple tasks like putting together a poster, blurring out a license plate in a photo or cropping out a shaky part of your vacation video.
So that's what open source software is for. While they're sometimes not the most stable of applications, they're free and they oftentimes get the job done, just like their paid-for counterparts. We compiled a list of some of the best open source Adobe Creative Suite alternatives. 7 of 10 10 Free Open Source Alternatives to Adobe CS View the full image GIMP Replaces: Photoshop GIMP is easily one of the most powerful pieces of open source software available on the internet today.
Alternatives to InDesign. Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum. Yesterday, we wrote about the Wellcome Library’s opening up of its digital archives and making over 100,000 medical images freely available online. If you’ve already made your way through this choice selection (or if the prospect of viewing a 19th century leg amputation doesn’t quite pique your curiosity) have no fear. Getty Publications just announced the launch of its Virtual Library, where readers can freely browse and download over 250 art books from the publisher’s backlist catalogue.
The Virtual Library consists of texts associated with several Getty institutions. Readers can view extensively researched exhibition catalogues from the J. Paul Getty Museum, including Paul Cézanne’s late-life watercolours, when the painter raised the still life to a high art (Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, 2004), as well as the woefully underappreciated Flemish illustrations of the 15th and 16th centuries (Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript, 2003). Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing. GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program. Inkscape. Draw Freely. Photo Editor | iPiccy: Free Online Photo Editing for You.
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