Free downloadable art software??

allyann87

Hi all, :hello:

I have started my own personal invitation business and have been creating doing then on microsoft excel. But after having to make so many different invites I am looking to download free art software.

Any good ones?

All help would be appreciated,

Thanks, Alyson.

mhutchuk

Serif Pageplus is usually a free download for the version thats ben superceeded by the latest release

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PagePlus/default.asp

will get you to some decent DTP software for nowt...

Usually have to ring them to register and they'll try to upgrade for a small fee... eventually they'll give you a free reg code after all the sales patter

Mark

wibbleboy

allyann87 wrote: »

Hi all, :hello:

I have started my own personal invitation business and have been creating doing then on microsoft excel. But after having to make so many different invites I am looking to download free art software.

Any good ones?

All help would be appreciated,

Thanks, Alyson.

If you are asking for free drawing software then I recommend Paint.NET.

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

It's a decent basic drawing package and is completely free. The download is only 1.6MB if you already have .NET v2.0 installed, if not then that's a separate 22MB download.

.NET v2.0 Libraries

braken2000

Have you tried the gimp?

It is basically photoshop but free:

http://www.gimp.org/

Tech_guy_4

braken2000 wrote: »

Have you tried the gimp?

It is basically photoshop but free:

http://www.gimp.org/

This is the right answer.

You might also like to checkout openoffice.org , it's a free program like microsoft office.

mrweeble

Word of warning, I've found the Gimp to be not that reliable on windows, in my experience Paint.NET is more reliable on Windows (though gimp is a better product and certainly use it if you are runing a Linux system).

If you have been doing graphics in Excel, then that uses vector graphics (where the graphics are stored as shapes that can be resized and reshaped independently) so if that is the way you prefer doing it I'd recommend Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/download/

You can also get clip art from http://www.openclipart.org/

braken2000

Gimp handles both types of images. Based on experience and my job (ICT guy) I would still reccomend GIMP. It can be slow, yes, but it is still far superior in terms of what you can do etc.

bzd

Hi,

I recommend GIMP too, for bitmap graphics, but for invitations you might want to be using vector based graphics too, in which case Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) is pretty excellent. Available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (through X11 interface though, I think). Have a look at the screenshots to see some of the examples of what you can do with it.

Ben

EDIT: oops! I see MrWeeble already suggested it. I second him!
Also, GIMP can /import/ most vector graphics, but it converts them to bitmap and can only save bitmap graphics.

allyann87

Thanks for all your help! :T

Will study them properly tonight to figure out which one is best for my needs.

Thanks again,

Alyson