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I am not a graphics wizard, but I have been needing to do some serious
graphics work on some web projects. I am trying to learn the Gimp, with
mixed success. I was just looking at the Adobe Creative Suite package
(ouch!) and realized that I was not aware of any direct open source
alternatives. I keep hearing GIMP being thrown around as though it’s the
hands down answer for all graphic-related tasks, but as far as I can
tell, it seems mainly to be a equivalent, or at least a rival, to Adobe
Photoshop. Are there any open source alternatives to such programs as
Fireworks and Illustrator? Even Dreamweaver (not exactly a graphics
package) is lacking a serious open source competitor; the version of NVU
in openSUSE isn’t even using standards compliant xhtml, and QuantaPlus
is a poor subsitute!

Is there not enough interest in these areas for serious open source
development? Personally I find the open source pro-audio sector (with
JACK, Ardour, Hydrogen, Jamin, Rakarrack and an arsenal of Ladspa
effects) to be much farther along than most open source graphic
applications.

So what do you guys think? Is there anything “beyond GIMP”?

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> Are there any open source alternatives to such programs as Fireworks
> and Illustrator? Maybe you find something here: ‘Find Open Source Alternatives to
commercial software | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com’
(http://www.osalt.com/) Some of your windows applications may run in
wine. See here: ‘Wine AppDB - Wine Application Database’
(http://appdb.winehq.org/)

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‘xarax’ (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/) will probably do what you need

Geoff

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> So what do you guys think? Is there anything “beyond GIMP”?

I hear some versions of Dreamweaver are well supported under WINE
or CrossOver.

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Inkscape suits all my vector drawing needs. Very simple to pick up as
well.
‘Inkscape. Draw Freely.’ (http://www.inkscape.org/)

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