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Open Source Software - Great For Graphics (AND FREE TOO)

I usually try to mention an Open Source alternative whenever I reccomend someone buy some software. Though OS software isn't usually as high quality as the professional stuff, it usually works great for people who are not professionals. There is usually tons literature out there on OS Software, and great support forums where you can get any questions answered within hours or even minutes.

Oh... did I mention is 100% FREE?

Here is a great website that categorizes most mainstream opensource softwares available, and gives you a short description of what they do.

www.osliving.com

Just a little tip to young graphic designers, I once used OS software to make enough money doing freelance to buy the Adobe Suite. :) If you can't afford to buy the Adobe software, you can get by with this stuff until you can save up enough money to buy it.

Posted by Robert Krames - Gainesville, FL Real Estate on 01/07/2008 03:20 PM

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os, software, graphic design, photoshop

8 Comments on Open Source Software - Great For Graphics (AND FREE TOO)

JAN

2008

Thanks for the heads-up ! Looks very well thought out. I have heard of some of them. Hope your New Year is the best ever !

Thanks for the list! I have seen most of this but there are some I did not know about.

JAN

2008

Thank you for the link. I have never heard of OSLiving before. It is bookmarked now.

This looks cool. I bookmarked it and will check it out further. Another reason to love AR...all the info sharing!

JAN

2008

My husband works exclusively with open source and YES he is a professional. There are many products he writes and works with and non profit is a huge client as well as the Eastern bloc countries. He just came back from Romania and is working with those countries with all open source products (much of it is over my head...I'm not techie, he is ;-)

I'm going to OSLiving right now. Thanks for sharing!

That's cool, thanks for sharing. Does he have a web site?

Robert, Check out Kase here at AR: http://activerain.com/kase

http://taskhopper.com/

http://apin.com/index.html

He has many projects and they are all Open Source.

If you are interested I would love some Realtors to work with Sugar which is an Open Source client management System...but I know everyone used topproducer because it is ready for our industry. Let me know if you would like more info.

JAN

2008

Robert,

Great tip. Thank you!

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