Are you wishing you had $650 for your very own copy of Photoshop? $600 for Illustrator? or $1800 for the entire Adobe Creativity Suite? Are you tempted to turn to pirating? Don’t do it! Here are some tools that will do the job very well, free.

For image editing a la Photoshop try GIMP, a powerful open-source package comparable to its Adobe counterpart. It’s available for Windows, MacOS and Unix and also has extensions to create animations.

Here’s a screenshot of GIMP in action in Windows:

GIMPshop is a modification that gives GIMP a user interface similar to Photoshop. I like their purpose:

My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the Gimp accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. I hope I’ve done that. And maybe along the way, I can convert a Photoshop pirate into a Gimp user.

Paint.net is also a favorite at our house. It will do basic image editing.

If you need a vector graphics editor like Illustrator or Corel Draw download Inkscape for Windows, MacOS or Linux. The Inkscape site is built on a wiki and provides great documentation. You can also check out the Open Clip Art Library.

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