Graphic Design Software

Years ago when I was in college for Graphic Design we used a program called Sodi Podi. It was a very new program a couple Russians were making at the time I believe (our prof had met them in person and loved their ideas). It’s a freeware raster program (similar to photoshop but toned way down last I saw it). There was also a vector program (like Freehand/Illustrator) that was freeware but the name doesn’t come to mind, sorry.

-- -- Jim - Kokomo, Indiana

Development was stopped on SodiPodi a few years, the code was branched off into a new program called Inkscape that is under active development. It can be downloaded from http://www.inkscape.org/. I haven’t used it myself but it could be worth a look, it’s aim is to be a free program with all the features of Illustrator.

there’s also GIMP, a freeware version of photoshop. Not sure how advanced thats become over the years, but it seems to me that Indesign/Photoshop/Illustrator have been moving towards each other in somewhat recent years.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Inkscape. That’s right. I knew there was a second program we tinkered with.

-- -- Jim - Kokomo, Indiana

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/gmm/fw3d.html

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/gmm/fwgraphicedit.html

A couple of web sites for free graphic editor programs

There is always the free GIMP linux one. Also for windows.

http://www.gimp.org/

Or a free college made one

http://paint.net/

-- Measure once cut twice....oh wait....ooops.

Inkscape is definitely what you want for logos and manipulating text.

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso