InkscapeshoutOut on 4/3/09 by TokyoGoGo in peeps |
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Hey there, I stumbled across this the other day and thought it could be useful to those of you stranded on Photoshop island. Let me quote their site, rather then trying to explain it myself… _“An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, 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. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.”_ www.inkscape.org So yeah, a free vector application. I know Springleap like thier artwork in AI and PSD format, but one could always work in vector and finally export to PS for sending. Inkscape is available for PC, Mac & Linux from their Downloads Page On the site you can also find screenshots, galleries & tutorials. |
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I did my design using Inkscape because I wanted to do vector graphics, since they scale perfectly.. and I don’t have Illustrator, and well, Inkscape is very cost friendly alternative ;) I found it quite nice to use for simple stuff. I’m very new to vector graphics, usually just do normal rasterized stuff in plain old Photoshop 7 [psh, who needs CS3… :( ]or GIMP. The version I have allows for saving to (to name a few) SVG, PS, EPS, and XAML (I think I hear a yay from .NET geeks on that last one…), so I’m pretty sure it’s compatible with Photoshop/Illustrator… I’d be VERY surprised if they didn’t support at least one :) There’s also an open source 3D tool called blender – people probably heard about that – and an open source animation program I heard of recently called Pencil that other hobbyists might want to try out without shelling out lots o cash :)
shoutBack on 16/3/09 by jamiebarrow
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