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Replacements For Adobe Creative Suite 3 Apps?

Posted by timothy on from the best-of-luck-to-ye dept.

Gilmoure writes "With rumors of Adobe not supporting Creative Suite 3 applications on Mac OS X 10.6, I was wondering what Open Source apps folks would recommend to replace Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver? If the apps can work with the native file formats, all the better but if they provide the same functionality, that's still good. I have several designer friends that are looking forward to the speed boost of OS X 10.6 but don't want to go through the Adobe upgrades so soon after the CS2 to CS3 upgrades. Especially when Adobe's already working on CS5."

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  1. Re:I don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, well that 1995 malware still runs in win7 too -- real smart!
    "Microsoft -- because bad design never goes out of style"

  2. Re:Try these by sneilan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here's a relevant link to a place where you can find photoshop: http://thepiratebay.org/
    Believe it or not, Adobe PotatoeChop is a free program.

    --
    "I like it when the red water comes out.."
  3. Re:Respectively: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    > 16 bit depth

    I've never understood this complaint. You have either 8 bit (256 colour) graphics for the early web, or 24 bit (full colour) for full print-ready work, but 16 bit? Why bother with 16 bit support? Its only usefulness was for monitors/graphics cards in the early 1990s that didn't support 24 bit colour due to a lack of RAM, and this was in the days when a four MEGABYTE graphics card was large. Nowadays we have 512MB cards and higher as standard; the requirement for such low bit depths is long gone.

    Looking for 16 bit colour support is like checking a modern car for a crank handle, it's utterly pointless and anyone complaining that Gimp doesn't have it is simply looking for a reason to support Adobe. Brainwashing etc, call it what you will.

  4. Re:Respectively: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HOLY SHIT, you are fucking retarded.

    http://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/16-bit/

    Please, read this so you don't make a fool of yourself in the future.

    In photoshop 8-bit = 16.8 million colors
    16-bit = 281 trillion colors

  5. irrelevant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why worry, the graphic design types usually cant read, and would be just as happy with crayons.