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Graphics on Linux: Eight great image image resources and tools
When it comes to the world of graphics, Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator and DTP applications such as Quark and InDesign, stand head and shoulders above the rest and are the defacto standards for graphics professionals. But they're not open source, even if a little Wine hacking gets them running. If you're committed to doing your graphics the open source way then we have a few suggestions, and a couple of handy tutorials to get you up and running.