good illustrations program

[deathrail 0]

hey, I'm farely new to the open source community. I switched from windows nt to mandrake. I was a big fan of Adboe Photoshop 7, I was woundering if there was a cross over of it, or if there was a program similar to it...???

 

[martouf 0]

one word: "gimp"

 

If by 'illustration' you mean vector graphics, have a look at 'dia'.

 

For a place to start getting information about available graphics software, have look

at:

http://www.portalux.com/applications/graphics/bitmap/

and

http://www.portalux.com/applications/graphics/vector/

 

If nothing less than Photoshop will do, then have a look at CrossOver Office

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/

and with this you can install Photoshop on your MDK system.

[blackpage 0]

Howdy deathrail,

 

as said above, da GIMP is really the thing to look for under X. The only recommendation I would add is to immediately upgrade to GIMP 2.0.1/2, 'cause as far as I remember MDK 10 comes with GIMP 1.x which just can't cope with version 2.0+. Still though, if you need some CMYK-capable program (e.g. for print-jobs etc.) then GIMP will not satisfy your expectations. In this case you better try to get Photoshop running under X (Wine?, or VMWare as I do here).

 

Also I'd like to point you to this link ->

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread26991-1.html

 

... a quick-install-guide I wrote a couple of months ago and which should give you a quick overview what you might need to download and install prior to/along with GIMP.

 

Furthermore - and just in case you're after some vector-graphics proggie too which is well worth a look - you might want to read up on a thing called SODIPODI > http://www.sodipodi.com/ <. It isn't quite Corel or Freehand, but still nice.

 

hope that helps

[martouf 0]

blackpage - thanks for providing a link to 'sodipodi'. Forgot about that one.

 

MDK 10 advertises it ships with Gimp 1.2.5 but also includes Gimp 2.0.0 (for testing, I 'spose).

If Gimp 2 (one of the extras or contrib items) isn't where you can find it on your disc,

then go on over to rpms.mandrakeclub.com and get it there.

 

Full CMYK support is in development, and you can always leave the color sep for Photoshop.